Common use of Recommended Protocol/Standard Clause in Contracts

Recommended Protocol/Standard. The first two characters of the TG alias identify the talk group governing entity/municipality (see Table 1). The third character identifies the department/agency within the governing entity/municipality (see Table 2). The fourth character will have a dash (-) as a separator. The remaining available characters will be used to complete the talk group alias. It is important to note, depending on the subscriber type and/or model, character display may be smaller or larger. Subscribers units with displays smaller than twelve (12) characters will require condensing the TG name to fit within the display. Any subscriber displays that are under eight (8) characters will be handled, by the Radio System Administrator, on a case by case basis. It is understood that there is currently a wide variety of subscribers out in the field. In addition to this, there are many agencies who still wish to continue to identify zone and channel assignments prior to the TG in the subscriber unit. Even though the concept that the TG’s are to remain consistent from zone controller up to the subscriber is fully supported by Broward County Office of Communications Technology, this may be too big of a challenge to overcome at this time. We have come to the understanding that if the agency wishes to continue to identify zone and channel assignment prior to the TG name in the subscriber, they have this ability if they can leave the TG name consistent, as it appears in the zone controller, as much as possible.