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A panoramic view of Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital, seen from the roof of the police headquarters
Equipped with TETRA: a police control centre in Ulan Bator
TETRA takes root in Central Asia T
he first public safety TETRA network in Mongolia was deployed there recently
by Teltronic. Its partner in the region, LG CNS, helped to install the system, supported by funds from the World Bank.
Making reliable connections
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n Germany, Cassidian – the new name of EADS Defence & Security – has been
commissioned by Berlin’s IT service centre to link the State of Berlin’s 28 control centres to the national public safety digital radio network (BDBOS). The link, via two data concentrators,
will make the control stations’ access to the TETRA digital radio network as cost- effective and manufacturer-independent as possible. Berlin is the first federal state to commission such a system. A special feature will be high availability:
should one of the concentrators fail, the linked-up control stations and TETRA groups will be automatically re-routed via a second location to ensure almost uninterrupted operation. Cassidian is also supplying a powerful
network management system which provides a full overview of the operational status of all system components of the concentrator system.
Also playing a key role in setting up the network was MCS Electronics, the country’s second largest mobile operator. Teltronic supplied the complete TETRA system, including multi-site infrastructure,
mobile units and handheld radios. A second phase of construction, to be undertaken in the near future, will bring increased coverage of the capital, Ulan Bator, and other cities across Mongolia.
Radio support for a Papal visit
Red Cross, the humanitarian relief charity, in time for a visit by the Pope to Glasgow during September. For the first time, the British Red Cross was
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able to enjoy complete radio coverage across a large geographical area without loss of voice quality.Te occasion also demonstrated that the Airwave service can provide full nationwide interoperability for the British Red Cross, offering the flexibility it needs to handle large-scale events wherever they may occur in Britain. With the aid of the Airwave service, the
‘silver command’ team of the British Red Cross was able to manage efficiently all vehicles, staff and welfare centres involved in providing first aid services to 100000 people within a 65km radius, culminating in an open-air Mass at Bellahouston Park. To test regional interoperability and the scalability of the Airwave network to cope
Alongside Red Cross Northern Scotland’s all-terrain mobile communications command vehicle is operations director Ian Rideout
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n the UK, public safety network operator Airwave completed a major phase of its nationwide TETRA rollout to the British
with large-scale events, additional radios were brought to Glasgow from a pilot deployment in the south-west of England. “By bringing forward the network
deployment in Glasgow in time for the papal visit, Airwave allowed us to gain a good understanding of how its service performs during large-scale operations”, commented Brian Everard, implementation adviser at the British Red Cross. “Te network operated perfectly on the day and demonstrated the benefits we look forward to enjoying once the nationwide rollout is complete: interoperability, scalability, ease of use and, above all, operational efficiency.”
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