Capacity Max
- Next-gen trunking with premium dispatch control
What Is It?§
Capacity Max is a multisite trunked radio system from Motorola Solutions. By design, the system is compliant with Tier III DMR standards, the most scalable and perspective MOTOTRBO system by far.

What Did We Do for You?§
- Wireline voice interface to Capacity Max1.
- Wireline data interface to Capacity Max.
- All voice dispatch features: voice, radio commands, emergency, and interruptions1.
- All the practical data types supported: GPS, indoor, text messaging, telemetry.
- Air traffic monitoring support.
- Redundancy of key infrastructure components.
Where Do You Need It?§
- Large organizations. Use Capacity Max with greatest radio fleet supported and greatest scalability opportunities.
- Standard-compliant organizations. Use Capacity Max which is Tier III DMR compliant by design and provides greatest interoperability opportunities.
What Will You Get?§
- Availability and trust: Capacity Max has fixed control channel that is never lost, and the system never misses any communication requests. SmartPTT is able to record and serve anything what is necessary.
- Seamless dispatch experience: SmartPTT offers the same user interface and interaction conventions for Capacity Max as it does for other systems. Dispatchers are ready already to work with the solution.
How You Get It?§
- Select the newest SmartPTT PLUS.
- Select the newest Capacity Max.
Features§
Table below provides overview of basic functionality2 supported in SmartPTT Enterprise and SmartPTT PLUS at wireline interface to Capacity Max.
Value-added functionality3 of SmartPTT Enterprise and SmartPTT PLUS applies to available basic functions without any limitations.
Table Conventions
- Check box () indicates feature support.
- Cross () indicates feature absence.
| Features | Enterprise | PLUS |
|---|---|---|
| Voice calls | ||
| Voice recording | ||
| Emergency | ||
| Radio commands | ||
| Presence (ARS) | ||
| Patching and Bridging | ||
| Phone Interconnect | ||
| GPS Location | ||
| Indoor Location | ||
| Text Messages | ||
| Job Tickets | ||
| Telemetry | ||
| RF Coverage | ||
| Air Traffic Monitoring | ||
| System Health Monitoring |
| Features | Enterprise | PLUS |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast Group Calls | ||
| FOACSU calls | ||
| Group calls | ||
| OACSU Calls | ||
| Site All Calls | ||
| System All Calls |
| Features | Enterprise | PLUS |
|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Privacy | ||
| Advanced Privacy |
Emergency§
- Emergency alarms decode
- Emergency calls decode
- Manageable priority of incoming emergency voice and outgoing voice.
Radio commands§
- Call Alert
- Radio Check/Silent Interrogate Encode
- Radio Stun/Radio Disable Encode
- Radio Revive/Radio Enable Encode
- Radio Kill Encode
- Ambience Listening/Remote Monitor Encode
- Allow/Deny Lists
Interoperability§
- Group calls patching
- Phone Interconnect, including Enhanced Phone Interconnect
- Analog and/or other MOTOTRBO interconnect
- Inter-Server group call patching
- Voice calls bridging
- WAVE PTX interoperability
- SmartPTT Mobile Interoperability
Presence etc.§
- Presence Updates
- Sing In and Sign Out
GPS Location§
- GPS Triggers Encode
- GPS Data Decode
- GPS Batching
- USBD Polling
Indoor Location§
- Timeout Trigger
- Indoor Data Decode
Text Messages§
- Group text messaging
- Private text messaging
Telemetry§
- Telemetry data decode
- Telemetry data encode
Air Traffic Monitoring§
- Voice calls information decode
- Data calls information decode
Infrastructure§
- Presence Service Backup
- Multiple VRC Gateways
- VRC Gateway Backup
- MNIS Data Gateways Backup
Changelog§
9.14§
- Introducing Capacity Max 750 Sites, an increased range of RF site IDs.
- Introducing talkgroup setup enhancements.
9.13§
- USBD Polling is supported.
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Advanced Telephony (call establishment on the control channel) supported.
9.12§
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Seamless locate enhancements are supported.
9.11§
- Interface for Air Traffic Interface Applications (ATIA) is supported to receive voice and data call information.
9.10§
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Integrated WAVE PTX with Capacity Max supported. - SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Add the support of seamless voice and locate functionality.
9.8.1§
- Support MNIS TCP interface to connect remote MNIS data gateways.
- Change the status of the MNIS Data Gateway Relay from "actively supported" to "deprecated".
9.7.1§
Add the support of the single-slot data revert configuration.
9.5§
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Add the dynamic group number assignment (DGNA) support. - Entities called “channels” associated with Capacity Max are removed from the Channels panel.
9.3§
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Introducing voice calls priority management.
9.1§
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Add backup MNIS VRC gateway support. - Add backup MNIS data gateway support.
- Increase range of RF Site IDs to 250 (total ID range is 1 to 255).
- SMARTPTT PLUS ONLY:
Increase number of supported VRC gateways to 14. - Increase number of supported backup Presence Services to 4.
- Suspend the support of Capacity Max R2.6.
9.0§
- Introducing the feature.
- Introducing FOACSU
See Also§
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Basic functionality is the semantic recognition (encode and decode) of data received/sent over the interface, their provision to/from SmartPTT users (including necessary visualization), and logging. Examples are voice calls decode/encode, subscriber GPS location, etc. ↩
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Value-added functionality is the one that is built on top of the basic functionality data. ↩