EDACS

EDACS. (enhanced digital access communications system)

A private radio or specialized mobile radio network. EDACS. serves more than 450 public safety, utility, industrial, commercial and government organizations worldwide, including the Kremlin in Russia, the French Naval Fleet, American Electric Power, the Denver International Airport, and Miami-Dade County, Fl., to name a few. (Cingular)

EDACS stands for The Enhanced Digital Access Communication System, a radio communications protocol and product family invented in the General Electric Corporation in the mid 1980s.

History

A young designer, Jeff Childress, created an autonomous radio base-station controller, known as the GETC (General Electric Trunking Card). The GETC was a general purpose controller with input/output optimized for radio system applications. Considered somewhat of a "jumper demo-kit" the GETC's unparalleled flexibility remains a testiment to American industrial engineering, and hundreds of thousands of users in the field continue to rely on this innovation for their daily operations, and millions of citizens rely on it for their safety and security.