regional focus


Public transport in Asia: TETRA’s status as an open standard and the


performance of the technology have contributed to its success in this type of application


company stated. “Considerations often include spectrum, coverage, scalability, long-term plans and type of application requirements they have, in order to meet their mission-critical needs.” And it went on: “Being well-established open-standards-


based technologies, both TETRA and APCO-P25 technologies offer clear roadmaps for evolution to the next generation of voice and data and are well supported by an ecosystem of equipment manufacturers and application developers in mission-critical communications, and to offer long-term value to its users.” Leaving no hint as to which side of the fence the company


might lean towards first, it wrapped up in diplomatic style, “Motorola Solutions is a global solution provider and in a unique position to offer both TETRA and APCO-P25 to support our customers’ choice. “Both technologies have been accepted well and will continue to serve our customers for years to come.”


The newest products Markus Oltmanns, of Rohde & Schwarz Professional Mobile Radio, suggested that with Asian customers “always requesting the newest standards and products”, continued growth of TETRA in the region was likely – despite competition, especially in the public safety sector, from P25 and from new and proprietary standards (including in China) such as PDT. He added that a lot of opportunities for TETRA remained


in regional growth markets for networks supporting what he calls “high-level applications” – infrastructure projects such as metros and railways, highways, airports, and harbours, as well as the mining, oil and gas, and offshore industries.


Cases in point Tere’s no better way to illustrate the rising uptake and spread of TETRA in Asia-Pac than with examples. Key players such as Motorola, EADS/Cassidian, Sepura and Rohde & Schwarz,


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to name but a few, are active in the region but, with user cases so numerous, only a few can be highlighted here. Plans got underway to deliver Malaysia’s first nationwide


TETRA network in 2007, when Rohde & Schwarz was authorized by the Malaysian Government to deliver and integrate a countrywide trunked radio network with the Sapura Group. Accepted in early 2010, the new system is ramping up steadily, with more and more users registering. It replaced a situation where user groups throughout the country operated different systems; intercommunication and interoperability between these agencies and regions had been very unreliable with frequent breakdown in communications, even at critical times. Deployment was conducted in several phases through


Nokia Siemens Networks and the Sapura Group as local partner. Over 500 base stations, each with up to eight TETRA carriers, have been deployed across the network. Regional base stations and switching nodes, such as those under the authority of an individual administrative district, were networked using cluster technology in order to deliver readily available channels, so that voice and data traffic is automatically redirected as soon as interference occurs on a connection path. Coverage of the system reaches 90 per cent of Malaysia’s


populated area and 4675 km of coastline, as well as reaching 10 nautical miles out to sea. Up to 70000 subscribers can be supported.


First responders Motorola’s earliest TETRA forays in the Far East included a system for Beijing Police in China, who bought more than 27000 TETRA portable radios for use by first responders across all emergency services. A system for the Korea National Police to support the 2002 FIFA World Cup was claimed to be Asia’s first (and Motorola’s largest, at the time) public safety 800MHz TETRA system.


TE TRA TODAY Issue 6 2012


Picture: Motorola Solutions


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