AK Associates to install Selective Routing and PSAP equipment for Albany County, New York.

AK has been selected to bring Albany County into the New Year with Phase II wireless equipment for their eleven PSAPs in the County. “It is a larger than the average project and as in the past we are looking forward to working with and developing new technologies to ensure the project is done efficiently and with the latest networking equipment.” As such AK will be working with a local fiber provider to transport voice, data, and IP traffic to all eleven PSAPs, and two Selective Routers.

AK Associates to install multi PSAP services for Clay County, Florida

AK has been selected to install and maintain two selective routers and four PSAP locations within the County. “Every installation is a little unique in the way telecommunications are handled, and this is no different. The big thing that AK does is design the best way for dispatchers and call takers to utilize the best equipment."

Clay County is unique in that they have some locations that integrate their key system in with their 9-1-1 equipment. What AK does is bring all the dial tone functionality back to the selective routers so that all the PSAPs can directly talk to and transfer capability within the same (redundant) system.

Kerry McCarthy
AK Associates

Liberty County Florida

On Thursday, March 15, 2007 the Liberty County 911 Communications Center in the Liberty County’s Sheriff’s Office will receive the First Annual AK Associates Service Award for Providing Outstanding 9-1-1 Service to the Residents, Businesses and Visitors of Liberty County, Florida. 

Liberty County was a unanimous choice of the five-judge panel.  The judges were extremely impressed by the over-all quality of the 9-1-1 call taking and dispatching as lead by Supervisor/Dispatcher Major Junior Lolley.  His team is one of the best in the country and Junior is the very best at what he does. According to AK Associates, an organization working on cutting edge technology with counties and states across the Country, Liberty County 911, which operates in a partnership between the BOCC 911 Coordinator and the Sheriff’s Department, excels in the coordination, processing, and implementation of the state of the art 911 emergency call answering system.

Elaine Kraus, President of AK Associates explained at the 9-1-1 Coordinator Conference, in Bradford County Florida, that the initial challenge her team faced in engineering the new 9-1-1 system for Liberty County seemed very difficult.  She noted that Liberty County 9-1-1 Coordinator, Mr. Steven Ford had a requirement that AK had never been asked to consider prior to Liberty County.  The new system had to be designed to accommodate Major Jr. Lolley’s sight disability.  Ms. Kraus explained to the group that her engineering team only performed the routine staff training and that Major Lolley made the extra effort to self-train with minimal input and assistance from AK Associates engineers on the specialized equipment engineered by AK.