Motorola Solutions, Inc.
10680 Treena St., Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92131
December 30, 2024
Commander Naved Qureshi
City of San Marino
Subject: Motorola Solutions Sole Source- APX8500 RADIO EQUIPMENT Motorola Solutions, Inc. (“Motorola”) is the market leader in radio communications systems and products for the U.S. Government and Public Safety Market and is pleased to have the city of San Marino, CA as a valued customer. The P25 APX8500 radio subscribers we design and manufacture contain proprietary hardware and software components which are not commercially available except through Motorola and its channel partners.
The APX 8500 radio hardware and software options that are proposed to the city of San Marino will be used on the ICI ASTRO25 Trunked System. This system is used by many of the ICI Regional Member agencies, including the city of San Marino to provide mission critical radio communications for their first responders. The ICI ASTRO25 system offers several proprietary features and services that are only available to Motorola APX subscribers operating on an ASTRO25 system.
Specifically, the APX 8500 radios that San Marino currently uses, and that are proposed, are capable of using Motorola’s SmartConnect. SmartConnect is proprietary service on the ICI Regional system that enables public safety communication where Land Mobile Radio (LMR) connectivity is compromised. The APX radios are able to either use in vehicle Wi-Fi hot spots or Wi-Fi hotspots located in City and County facilities to transmit and receive radio communications from the County ASTRO25 system via the internet.
This unique feature is available only to APX radios that have been equipped with Wi-Fi hardware and the SmartConnect feature.
Additionally, the ICI system also features Over-the-Air Rekey of the APX radios encryption keys and Over-the-Air-Programming. Both services use Motorola proprietary hardware located in the ASTRO25 Core to track and process these actions, and minimize system and County resources to do so.
If you have any questions regarding our radio equipment, please contact me at (657) 705-4357 or at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Brett Cox
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Brett Cox
Sr. Account Executive