FT. WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. and Microspace Communications announced they are offering a shared service that couples Microspace’s satellite broadcasting technology with Motorola’s newest control platform, RF-Conductor!.
Paging carriers using the service need only buy the satellite bandwidth they need and still use the RF-C! controller, minimizing the up-front capital cost, the companies said, particularly for medium-sized carriers. The shared RF-C! service supports all the current digital paging formats, including FLEX.
Motorola’s RF-C! controller works with either one-way or two-way paging systems. It interfaces with every component of the paging system and controls all major functions including the batching and scheduling of outbound paging, the coordination of two-way inbound responses and originated transmissions, retransmissions as required, and the return of two-way page status information and replies to the paging terminal. RF-C! works with control transmitters to improve satellite link efficiency.
“Motorola designed the RF-C! platform to anticipate the growing capacity needs of its advanced messaging clients,” said Tony Marshall, vice president and general manager of Motorola’s American Paging Systems Division. “And now we are delighted that the new shared RF-C! service with Microspace will bring the benefits of this technologically advanced platform to a much wider target market.”
