Positron Public Safety Systems announced that Broward Sheriff’s Office, Broward County, Florida, the nation’s largest fully accredited sheriff's department in the United States has chosen to upgrade to Next Generation E9-1-1 services via the purchase of PPSS’ Voice over Internet Protocol for Emergency Response solution set. Broward County serves a population of 1.8 m people in 31 municipalities. VIPER as well as Power 911, Power MIS and Positron Sentry will be deployed across Broward County’s 13 Public Safety Answering Points. Broward County’s 13 PSAP’s are planned to be a mixed architecture of host and remote sites.

As a result of Positron’s proven reliability, Broward Sheriff’s Office plans to further leverage their next generation IP technology. VIPER’s IP technology will provide Broward County flexible disaster recovery options as well as cost and operational efficiencies. These capabilities combined with VIPER’s advanced IP features and native VoIP capabilities all factored into Broward Sheriff’s Office choice in selecting Positron as their source for their direct product delivery, service and support partner. Broward Sheriff’s Office required a partner who had a track record of being customer focused; the ability of successfully anticipating market trends and possessed an awareness of Broward County’s changing needs – all demands that PPSS was able to meet. In addition, PPSS’s reputation, ease of training and from a user’s perspective, seamless migration from an analog to a digital platform where factors as well.