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Handling radio call traffi c for a giant gas project


TETRA in Oslo: 270 000 tickets were sold for 11 competition days during the Nordic World Ski Championships and an estimated 50 000 spectators watched the opening ceremony


Securing the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo


sports event in Norway. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in


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Oslo during February and March, hundreds of radio users, including security, medical teams, transport, parking, sport teams, anti-doping teams, the jury and the organizing committee, were all connected by a common system. Radio communication was regarded as


crucial for the running of the event and, according to the Norwegian TETRA service provider TC Connect, expectations for system performance were high: 100 per cent availability and 100 per cent coverage. But Svein Magne Karlsen, information and communications


ETRA radios by Cassidian were used recently to provide secure communication for a major winter


technology (ICT) manager of the Oslo 2011 organizing committee, commented: “Our experience confi rms that we did a right choice”. Normally, TC Connect’s network serves


around 1000 users in the Oslo area, Oslo’s metro being the largest single customer. But during the championships the number of users increased by 650. Also connected to the system during the big


event were representatives of the police, fi re and ambulance services, for inter-service co- operation in case of incidents. Most of the radios were the new THR9i


model by Cassidian, a robust, weatherproof handset whose features include the Lifeguard man-down function. T is provides enhanced personal safety for the user.


system has been supplied by Zetron to be used for dispatch and emergency call handling at the Gorgon Project in Australia, one of the largest natural gas projects in the world. The IP- based system will provide dispatch communications over TETRA and conventional radio systems, as well as emergency call handling for the project. The Gorgon Project is the largest


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single-resource natural gas project ever undertaken in Australia. Operated by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron, it includes the construction of a 15-million- tonne-per-annum liquefi ed natural gas plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to provide up to 300 terajoules per day of gas to Western Australia. “Zetron worked very closely with us to provide a system that meets the Gorgon Project’s exacting and complex technology


requirements”, said Bob Greaney, senior project director for Kentz T&E Systems, the engineering company to which Zetron


has supplied the equipment.


Communicating at the Universiade N


ext in a series of great sporting events staged in China – after the spectacular 2008 Olympic Games


and the 2010 Asia Games – will be the 26th Universiade, to take place in Shenzhen on


August 12–22. Chinese manufacturer Hytera, which is


based in Shenzhen, will be supporting the event with its new PT580H 350–400 MHz TETRA handportable radio. More than 1000 of these have already been delivered to the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau, mostly to be dispatched to Nanshan Police Station. Both the opening


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25-position Advanced Communication (Acom) console


and closing ceremonies will be held in Nanshan District. T e new radio, designed to meet the needs of


security forces, off ers a 3W RF power output, IP57 water resistance, a high-resolution colour display and many other features for diff erent applications, and excellent performance with communication confi dentiality. It has undergone a series of stringent durability tests, including MIL-STD- 810F and HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test).


Ready for sporting action – a compact but durable new TETRA handportable from Hytera


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