B-Link came out around 94/95. my departments 96 Caprice 9C1s had B-Links installed by AV-Tech here in Denver at that time. They were quite the upgrade from the standard Edge 9000s that my department used since 1987.
Jeez, definitely a big upgrade from the "Robocop Era" Edges! Imho the only downside would be the wheeled whale Caprices of that era. I haven't heard good things about them from an uncle whose police service used them. Said that they were sluggish, hung around corners and had awful handling. It's funny though, because in high school I knew this kid who had a 95 or 96 9C1 he got in the US,
IIRC, and turned it into a decent sleeper. Guy was a total dork in every way possible, but I'll say that his Caprice was nice. Only good thing that I could ever say about that dweeb!
My home city's police service switched over to B-Link and whatever the newest Edge variant of the time would've been when B-Link first came out or not too far from. They'd briefly tried the Vector and weren't impressed. Before that it was Aero 24 EAH TTs with PA300s and
FS switchboxes. Replaced B-Link with one of the earlier Cencom versions, then went to Smartsirens with Edge Ultras for a bit in the early-mid 2000s, then to Cencom Gold in 2005-2006 or so with LED Edge Freedoms, then swapped those out for Arjents in 2008 and then went balls to the wall a couple years back with CanTrol and Liberty 2 DUOs and now Legacy DUOs with a mix of CanTrol and now seems like
SoS nERGY 400s or maybe BluePRINT. They've always liked nice equipment.
Medium sized city with HUGE police, fire and
EMS budgets means nice stuff. Funny part is that you still see some cruisers with Arjents! Moved up north a few months ago and going from that to seeing/hearing D&R equipment is a big change.