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Radio system secures the Le Mans 24 Hours race


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Russian region upgrades radio fl eet for public safety services


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he Samara Region Emer- gency Centre (SREC), a provider of public safety


services to one of Russia’s largest industrial areas, has replaced its ageing radio fl eet with a Vertex Standard two-way radio solution. Coordinating rapid response


teams throughout such a large area and across a broad range of terrain in all types of weather conditions demands a particularly robust and reliable communications solution. Implemented jointly by ZAO


Articom and ZAO SV Telecom, the system comprises VX-231 por- table radios for fi eld teams and VX- 2200 mobile radios used as base stations and installed in fi re trucks and other emergency vehicles.


T e VX-231 portables deliver a 5W output with 16 channels and two programmable keys. T e Emergency and Lone Worker alert functions help mobile and centre staff monitor team mem- bers at an incident. T e Lone Worker mode operates around a built-in timer that requires the user to reset it at a predetermined interval. If not reset, the radio then automatically switches to the Emergency mode for assistance. With the Emergency alert option, a silent alarm and live audio is transmitted to the dispatcher to request help. Vladimir Gorsky, senior sales


manager at ZAO Articom, Vertex Standard’s regional partner and principal supplier and technical


consultant to the SREC, comment- ed: “T e radios’ programmable buttons allow rescue teams and fi re brigades to have rapid access to other teams and to keep in touch with mobile emergency units and fi re trucks. T e built-in encryption also ensures the SREC network is not compromised.” T e VX-2200 is specifi cally


designed to deliver fl exible mobile communications and support 128 channels and eight groups. To date, 167 VX-231 radios


have been deployed for emergency teams and VX-2200 radios are be- ing used for 17 fi xed communica- tion stations and 33 fi re trucks. T e SREC plans to extend the


two-way radio network to cover the entire Samara Region.


utomobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) – organisers of


the world’s oldest sports car endurance race, the Le Mans 24 Hours race – this year opted for three radio networks from Hytera to help secure the event. The race, which took place


over June 22-23, brought more than 245,000 people to the town of Le Mans in the Loire region of France. Given the vast crowds and amount of organisation required, ACO needed a resilient and trustworthy radio system. Hytera’s French dealer


Modulocom secured the contract to supply the three networks: one to the fi rm handling race security and access to the paddock; another went to the organisers of the Driver’s Parade; and the last to the company responsible for setting up installations for the event. Two hundred Hytera PD705


DMR handportables and three RD985 DMR repeaters were supplied for the system and Modulocom was on hand to support and assist all three sets of customers during the race.


Kilostream replacement programme unveiled A


irwave has signed a contract with NEC Europe


for the replacement of 2,100 BT kilostream circuits that make up part of the Airwave Network. According to John Lewis, chief operating offi cer of Airwave: “Over the next few years BT will be withdrawing


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its kilostream product used in part of our network. We have decided to make the investment now as it ties in with our move towards technology and services beyond the core Tetra network.”


Airwave will be replacing a large proportion of its current


Tetra backhaul network with NEC’s high capacity iPasolink microwave radio solutions. In addition, NEC will manage the network design, site acquisition, site construction and installation, as well as the commissioning of the equipment.


The replacement product


is LTE ready, which is in line with the industry’s push for it to become one of the leading technologies for future mission critical communications. NEC has provided microwave radio solutions to Airwave since 2006.


LAND mobile August 2013


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