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TETRA technology for small and medium-sized networks. Suitable for systems ranging from a single site to networks supporting several thousand subscribers, Claricor is designed to meet the needs of airports, industry and transport sectors, with many of the advanced functions of larger networks. Orders have included a contract with HyunDai Oilbank in
Korea for a system with one base station and more than 200 mobile and portable terminals, and five systems for Supreme Landmobile & Wireless (SLW), in Malaysia, one of the most country’s successful licensed 800 MHz operators. One of these systems, with more than 600 TETRA radios in use, secures the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur – the world’s tallest twin buildings – and users in the surrounding commercial areas. A TETRA network from Cassidian also provided secure
communication services during last year’s 26th World University Games in China, through a contract with the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau.
Energy industry Another infrastructure supplier, Team Simoco, last year completed the supply of a TETRA system for the Badak liquid natural gas plant in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in partnership with a local systems integrator, PT Alssa. With the capacity to process over 22 million tonnes a year, the plant supplies customers in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Its single-site TETRA-G system covers an area of around 220 square kilometres from a single four-carrier transmission site, supporting more than 500 users equipped with intrinsically safe handportables. Te system has fully-redundant switching for maximum reliability and a gateway which connects to legacy analogue networks.
Frequency shift Terminal manufacturer Sepura has also enjoyed many successes in the Asia-Pacific region. In the mid-2000s, for example, the company became one of the largest TETRA radio suppliers to the military in South Korea when its handportables were selected by the Korea Combat Training Centre in the city of Inje. Tey were customized to operate at the 368MHz frequency specifically required by the KCTC – an unusual frequency for a TETRA system. Also in Korea, in early 2007, South Korea’s National
Emergency Management Agency approved Sepura TETRA radio terminals for use on the country’s nationwide public safety network, when that network was entering its first phase of deployment. In the same year, a contract was signed to supply the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency with more than 5000 TETRA radio terminals, including SRH3800 sGPS hand-held radios, and SRM3500 and SRG3500 in- vehicle radios. “Tis order follows other significant sales to government,
public safety and industrial sectors in Korea”, commented Kevin Graham, regional director for Sepura, at the time. “Te National Emergency Management Agency project is one of the biggest and most important TETRA deployments anywhere in the world today, and we are excited that we will be playing a major role in supplying terminals into it as high numbers of users migrate over the next few years.”
In South Korea, TETRA systems from Motorola and the Spanish manufacturer Teltronic have entered service with regional police authorities, in accordance with government plans to upgrade public safety systems to TETRA. Song- do New City, pictured here, is served by an 800 MHz system which helped to secure the Seoul G-20 political summit in 2010. Also using TETRA in Korea is a utility company – and a separate Teltronic network was installed in 2010 to serve the Korean International Circuit, a new Grand Prix motor racing circuit near the port of Mokpo
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Hotels and hospitality By the end of 2007, Sepura had also homed in on the Australian marketplace, supplying handheld radios to the Hyatt Regency Sanctuary Cove resort in the city of Gold Coast, Queensland, replacing analogue radios. Also in Gold Coast, one of Sepura’s Australian channel partners, Trans Communications, later implemented its first TETRA digital system in Queensland within a commercial environment, at the Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. Radios were supplied to a variety of users within the centre for personnel location, management, maintenance, security and cleaning services. And another Gold Coast deal was secured last year when
the Gold Coast Suns, a new professional Australian Rules football team, chose Sepura TETRA radios for all aspects of their operations. Te system includes Damm TETRA infrastructure and 140 Sepura terminals.
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Pacific Fair, the largest shopping centre in Queensland, Australia. Its TETRA installation includes a Bluetooth-based personnel location system by Zonith, an application partner of radio terminal supplier Sepura. Other Sepura users across the Asia-Pacific region include casinos in Macau; municipal government teams in Jakarta, Indonesia; Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea (the world’s second-largest shipyard); and, in the Philippines, the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) – a campus project in Manila. TETRA network equipment for this scheme is by Rohde & Schwarz
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