TPARC Project Sponsors

TELUS Communications, formally known as BC TEL, supports our initiatives by providing space at their radio sites as well as various surplus radios and equipment for our use. Along with the space and equipment, their antenna crews have installed tower mounted antennas to provide optimum coverage.

All the surplus equipment donated is commercial, carrier grade, quality. The sites are all equipped with uninterruptible power and are seismically hardened. We hope this should prevent network failures in the event of an earthquake.

The value of their contribution to our project is very small by corporate standards, however, to us, it is invaluable. Without it, our project costs would make building and maintaing our network impossible.

Without the aid from TELUS, this project would never have developed into the World Class packet network it is now.

Province of British Columbia, Ministy of Public Safety and Solicitor General, through the Provincial Emergency Program (PEP), has established a strategic alliance with TPARC.

PEP, (formerly ESS) has made a number of monetary and in kind grants to TPARC for the provisioning of digital switching equipment over the years. For more information regarding PEP contact our liaison, Bryan Farrar

TPARC's network is used to connect the PEP headquarters in Victoria and Kamloops together via amateur radio using digital packet.

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