The DV/IP™over-the-air protocol powers the i2way Network format. It utilizes highly compressed digital voice data at 2,400 bps and customer "payload" data at 1 raw data rate of 10,600 bps, packetized in DWC's DV/IP format based on TCP/IP. i2way Network infrastructure consist of repeater base stations installed at cell sites, and data routers. There are no circuit switched elements. Consequently it is simple to interconnect the various nodes of a DV/IP Network either by conventional point-to-point data transmission methods, or packet switched networks, including the Internet.

Since the DV/IP system primarily utilizes "push-to-talk" operation for voice, there is no significant "latency" issue. Because push-to-talk mode is inherently a communications mode where the user himself causes communications delay, network delay is not detectable.

Audio and "payload" data packets remain in the same secure format as they are transmitted over the air, so Internet transmission has the same impervious security as over-the-air transmissions. On the air, i2way sounds like noise to anyone intercepting the transmission.

Internet linking does require a connection to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) at each Router, by one of several methods, including , DSL, Cable modem, Satellite Internet such as Hughes Networks, ISDN or other methods. Each subscriber unit on the i2way Network has a unique ID number.

Features Summary

• Start with one channel and expand to thousands. i2way startup costs are scaled to actual initial users.
• With proprietary Digital Voice Transmission, the interception of transmissions with a scanner becomes impossible.
• Units sharing the i2way Network can make secure individual calls, talk to secure groups of units, or to their entire enterprise.
• i2way transmissions fit into narrowband channels in the same way as analog FM signals, so no special channels are required.
• i2way transmissions also fit into new Ultra Narrow 6.25 kHz-spaced channels, where analog FM transmission is impossible.
• Only "clone proof" secure i2way radios work on the proprietary i2way Network infrastructure, adding increased security.
• An end user's dispatcher can send voice or text messages to field radio units, even from the Internet, and receive long and short form data messages in reply.
• Built-in GPS based Automatic Vehicle Location and map displays show the location of units on the dispatcher's desktop computer, as often as every 10 seconds.
• Totally automatic roaming from city to city, state to state, country to country, all via the Internet for low cost, speed of deployment and reliability.