Penton Systems / Transparency
Transparency Precision about ourselves
What we verify
A young company earns trust by being exact. Here is what is true today, what we do not claim, and how every number and animation on this site is labeled.
01 The record
True today, and not claimed
True today
- Founded and led by Scott Penton, who has worked as an engineer for L3Harris and has more than ten years as system manager for Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS).
- SouthEast Avionics of Melbourne, Florida is our avionics integration and installation partner.
- Founder relationships across the trunked radio industry, built over a career in public-safety communications.
- Production workloads run on enterprise Dell PowerEdge hardware in Orlando, Florida.
- An engineering laboratory with a seven-node Raspberry Pi cluster, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Debian and Windows Server.
- Sony Dash modernization and Cisco IP phone customization work, at prototype stage.
- This site sets no cookies and loads no third-party trackers, fonts or scripts.
Not claimed
- No carrier, satellite-provider or equipment-manufacturer partner status, and no certifications or awards beyond what this site names.
- No endorsement by L3Harris, the State of Florida or any radio vendor.
- No commercial data centers, and no uptime guarantees or service-level agreements without a written agreement.
- No customer counts, testimonials or revenue figures.
- No live inventory or pricing on this site; quotes are individual and written.
- No additional operating sites beyond Orlando today.
- Animations labeled illustrative, and simulations labeled as such, are not live data.
Penton Systems is an independent company. References to L3Harris, SLERS and the State of Florida describe Scott Penton’s professional experience; they do not imply endorsement by, or affiliation of Penton Systems with, those organizations. We do not discuss non-public details of any public-safety system.
02 Provenance labels
Every number says where it came from
Across the site, data and visuals carry one of five labels. If a source fails, we show that it failed; we never fill the gap with invented values.
- Live
Fetched or measured now
Retrieved within its refresh window from a named public source through our gateway, or measured from your browser to our server.
- Cached
Real, but older
Real data older than its normal refresh window, for example when a provider asks us to wait. The age is shown.
- Simulation
A real algorithm on hypothetical inputs
Routing, failure and cost models compute genuine results from the scenario you set, not from our network or customers.
- Illustrative
Artwork, not data
Animations and drawings that explain an idea, including the reference server, which is not a specific Dell model.
- Unavailable
Source failed
The source could not be reached. The page says so and keeps working.
03 Sources and software
What this site is built on
| Item | Used for | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| CelesTrak GP element sets | Satellite orbits, cached by our server no more often than the provider allows | Public data |
| NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center | Kp index, GOES X-ray flux, solar wind | Public data |
| Natural Earth via world-atlas | Land outlines | Public domain (ISC packaging) |
| NASA Blue Marble and Earth at Night imagery | Globe textures, resized and served from our server | Public domain NASA imagery |
| Three.js r160 | WebGL rendering | MIT license |
| satellite.js 5 | SGP4 orbit propagation in your browser | MIT license |
| Archivo and JetBrains Mono | Typefaces, self-hosted | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
Starlink, Iridium, GPS, Dell, PowerEdge, Cisco and other names identify public data or products and belong to their owners. Their use does not imply affiliation or endorsement.
04 Check for yourself
Verify us
- 01
Ask for a walkthrough
We will show the lab hardware on a call so you can see it running.
- 02
Ask for a reference configuration
We will document exactly what we propose, part by part, before you commit.
- 03
Start small
A single upgrade quote or a one-week AI pilot lets you judge us on delivery.