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is ready to test by the customers and the users – and we would like to invite them to try their applications on the network. At the closing of the two phases of the test, our plan is to put it in to the living network in the first quarter of next year.” Initially the TEDS installation will be
limited to a single radio site. “First it will be in a testbed environment and, after, in the living environment”, said Mr Kozma. “But it’s only one base station. And based on the demand of the users, we are ready and we would like to implement it into the network as well.” Te tests should also provide an
Members of Hungary’s rescue services demonstrated collaborative working with their TETRA network, EDR, in dealing with this simulated car crash staged behind the congress halls
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ost organization of the TETRA World Congress, which took place in Budapest last month, was the TETRA
Association. But if there was a host TETRA network for the event, it was EDR, the Unified Digital Radio Communications System for Hungary’s public services. Tis country-wide system, opened in 2007, is operated by Pro-M, a division of Magyar Telecom, which achieved the remarkable feat of completing its 270-site roll- out in just 421 days. “Te capacity of the network is 42000
users”, said Béla Kozma, chief executive of Pro-M, speaking on the company’s exhibition stand. “Today roughly there are 39000 already activated... but in 2007–2008, within a very short period, a large number of customers were connected to the network. “Within the network we have the classical
three main users – the police, fire brigade and ambulance, and altogether we have 28 user groups. Tey are grouped in VPNs and they are using very widely their interoperability channels, their talkgroups between the public safety users.” Network infrastructure was supplied by
Cassidian (EADS), but several Hungarian companies also participated in the project. One highlighted by Mr Kozma was BHE, whose exhibition stand was just opposite Pro-M’s: its contribution included TETRA repeaters to improve network coverage. For 10 watt mobile terminals, radio coverage now extends to 99 per cent of the country.
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On the big screen is Béla Kozma, chief executive of Pro-M, seen during a conference panel discussion. Pro-M is the integrator and operator of Hungary’s EDR public safety network
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data. “In the second half of this year we will implement a pilot network, a test network to show the TETRA enhanced data service possibilities of the EDR”, Mr Kozma continued. “We have two major targets, objectives. Te first is to test the network by the engineers and collect information for our planning guys and their planning activities. And the second, when we put on green, it means the network
understanding of how much the customers want the enhanced TEDS data capability. “Tis is one of the main targets of the tests of the users tests, to get this information, to get this feedback and, based on that, we will have to make a business plan for it”, he added. “By initiating this test environment we would like to trigger it!” During the World Congress, Pro-M brought
some 50–60 leading users from among its customers to visit the show, providing guided tours of the exhibition stands so that they could examine the latest TETRA products and services. “We started at our booth, implementing our results and new activities, and we guided them through our vendors and main partners here, and they were very satisfied”, Mr Kozma said.
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