The Kentucky Emergency Warning System (KEWS), Kentucky’s public safety network, was built in 1976 and is one of the country’s largest and most successful state-wide networks for emergency services. Harris Stratex Networks is under contract to upgrade KEWS.
The company designed and is constructing the IP-based network upgrade, which is based on the company’s advanced, highly scalable TRuepoint digital microwave radio system.
Harris Stratex Networks’s NetBoss Service Assurance product will manage service delivery and quality of service on the network. The company is serving as systems integrator for the project, including site planning and the installation of all network facilities, equipment and technologies.
The new, digital KEWS network will provide state-wide public safety communications interoperability, allowing agency personnel to communicate over a secure, highly survivable system that supports law enforcement agencies, fire fighters and other emergency service organizations. It will also enable state-wide mobile data solutions for the public sector and 911 interconnectivity of land-based and cellular phone environments.
