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The 'New' Motorola Solutions Is Taking On the Critical Need for Safety

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown discusses the company's shift to technology for public safety and emergency communications.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to At Barrens. I'm Andy Surwer. And welcome to our guest, Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola Solutions.

0:13.0

Greg, it's great to see you. Thanks for having me, Andy.

0:16.0

So Motorola Solutions hasn't made phones. Motorola hasn't made phones in a very long time. Some people still associate the name with phones.

0:23.6

Indeed.

0:24.6

What exactly are you doing right now? Talk to us about the company.

0:27.6

So the nucleus of the company is designed around the anchor tenant is emergency communications radio systems, mission critical radio systems. So think police, fire,

0:41.5

ambulance, military, NYPD, Chicago, PD, LA, and the like. The private networks, the emergency,

0:50.7

always reliable, always on, in spite of a natural disaster without cellular

0:56.3

congestion, these networks are provisioned, installed, and dedicated by Motorola Solutions, along

1:03.0

with the radios.

1:05.0

Some call them walkie-talkies.

1:06.4

You don't like to say walkie-talkies.

1:07.9

Well, people relate to it, but it's a much more sophisticated product. That's why I avoid it. But that's the majority of what we do, and we are the

1:15.9

worldwide leader with, there are about 13,000 private networks, not cellular, not AT&T,

1:22.9

not Verizon, not T-Mobile, but private, owned by the customer, and we put the infrastructure in,

1:28.6

we encrypt it, we secure it, we monetize the services, and we refresh the devices, i.e. radios,

1:35.9

and we're the leader in that business worldwide. Additionally, we do 911 software primarily

1:42.4

in North America. There's about 6,000 911 centers.

1:47.4

So you think 911 call handling, CAD dispatch, records, and evidentiary management.

1:54.8

We have a software portfolio that does basically emergency workflow in 911 command centers.

2:01.6

We have software that's in almost two-thirds of the 911 centers in North America.

2:07.6

And the third leg of the stool, we do video security and access control.

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