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APL for Belgium’s emergency services
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innish developer has won a contract from the Belgian TETRA operator Astrid to supply a nationwide automatic vehicle &
person location (AVL/APL) system for its users in the emergency services. Astrid wanted to fi nd a scalable TETRA-
based solution for its Central Location Server requirement, with the goal of establishing effi cient tracking of assets, vehicles and persons with a very high grade of service, fully integrated within mission-critical communications for Astrid’s public safety users. “We chose Portalify’s solution because it
is designed specifi cally for complex TETRA environments and because of the company’s track record for proven, robust and large-volume nationwide AVL/APL deployment”, said Yves Delvaux, chief operating offi cer of Astrid.
Performance and a low load on the network
were among Astrid’s key requirements. T e Portalify solution includes management of real-time and historic location information. It operates on decentralized or centralized network architectures can support 40 000 plus users. “We are delighted that Astrid awarded us
this prestigious contract and we look forward to building on our existing fi ve-year relationship together”, commented Kimmo Smolander, chief executive of Portalify. “Astrid’s AVL/APL solution is based on our world-leading DMS product that provides a platform for integrating other applications. We believe Astrid is well positioned to enjoy further success in the same way that many other Portalify customers are taking full advantage of our future-proof solutions.”
A civil protection network to handle a World Expo
T e system, an expansion and upgrading of existing networks, will be delivered by a consortium which also includes Telecom Italia. Designed for civil protection and managing emergencies, it will begin service next year and will be fully operational in time for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.
A
€20 million radio system to serve the Italian province of Lombardy is to be built by Selex Communications.
When completed, the system will include
22 TETRA sites from Selex, 450 DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) simulcast VHF and UHF, 90 radio links and thousands of radio terminals, both fi xed and mobile. An operations centre in Milan will co-
ordinate rescue missions across the whole region. It will be able to interconnect with radio networks belonging to other bodies involved in emergency operations.
Royal Navy to take TETRA to sea
B
ritain’s two new Queen Elizabeth (QE) Class aircraft carriers, now being built in Scotland for the Royal Navy, are to be equipped with TETRA radio networks for on-board communication. Selex Elsag, a company within the Finmeccanica group, has signed the second phase of a contract with the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (ACA) to manufacture and test the installations. An earlier phase of the agreement provided the design. When deployed, the TETRA systems will support above-deck aviation teams and below-deck onboard communications for mobile teams and machinery space personnel. Selex Elsag says its TETRA technology is ideal for providing this capability because it is specifi cally designed for secure emergency services. Each system will support include over 500 handsets. Via the ACA, Selex Elsag is also supplying the Identifi cation Friend- or-Foe (IFF) system for the QE Class. The ACA is a partnership which brings together the UK Ministry of Defence and the defence manufacturing industry.
Selex Elsag was created on June 1 by a merger between Selex Communications, which is based in Genoa, Italy, and Elsag Datamat, an Italian system integrator also owned by Finmeccanica.
can now be searched for online, through an indexing service provided by the web portal TETRA
Applications.com Each article appears in a database which
How to locate that elusive TETRA report in a moment A
rticles and news items which have appeared in editions of TETRA TODAY
enabling them to understand better what has been written about TETRA in their own business area.
visitors can search by topics that they are interested in. Items can be viewed or downloaded individually. In addition, a link on the portal provides direct access to the latest online issue of TETRA TODAY.
Browsing the database With this new tool, users can browse an entire database of TETRA-related articles,
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Expanding potential Gert Jan Wolf, founder of TETRA
Applications.com, said: “As currently TETRA systems and radios are allowed to be purchased in the US because of the waiver of the FCC, the bandwidth of both media has expanded enormously. “Both TETRA TODAY and our web portal will benefi t from each other’s strengths in this new market – TETRA TODAY being the undisputed leader in hard copy content
and
TETRA-Applications.com is the world’s fi rst online web portal for TETRA Communications.”
TETRA
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