World Congress News The 6th TETRA World Congress
TETRA contracts grow by 84% The latest global review by the TETRA Association shows strong markets and exciting growth for TETRA solutions The annual contracts review TETRA contracts by carried out by the TETRA Market Segment Association in September has shown some remarkable Market % of total growth in contracts for TETRA contracts systems and products. The Public Safety 39% total number of contracts Transportation 24% recorded is 325, which reprePAMR 10% sents a significant increase of Utilities 9% 84% since the last review. In Government 7% spite of some delays in making Military 6% decisions on national public Oil & Gas 2% safety networks in some counConfidential 2% tries, the Public Safety user segment is still the largest mar- Pacific region. The high perket, with Transportation as an centage growth figures for ever larger second. John Cox, Latin America and the Asia the TETRA Association’s CEO Pacific region highlight the said, “This high level of conpotential for TETRA and contritract growth demonstrates that bution to overall sales coming users around the world apprefrom outside Europe. John conciate the benefits of TETRA as tinued, “The TETRA Association an open standard and are participated in a high profile investing in it.” event in Latin America in October as part of the EU and Global TETRA contracts ETSI initiative, Project @LIS [Project ALIS - Alliance for the by Region Information Society]. Our plans Region No of are to support our members total contracts with more promotional activity Western Europe 133 in this region next year.” Southern Europe 50 Eastern Europe 38 Transportation is the fastest growing user segment Northern Europe 21 Reflecting the flexibility and Asia-Pacific 34 adaptability of TETRA is transLatin America 23 portation where contract numMiddle East 14 bers have grown by 139%. Still Africa 11 second to Public Safety in Confidential 1 overall terms, Transportation is certainly catching up. Two Regional growth with some surmajor contracts have been prises announced recently for Europe as a whole represents Transport organisations in some three-quarters of the Scandinavia and at the All market growth. The installed Russian TETRA Conference, a base of networks in public major rail operator described safety is fuelling a number of the superior performance of spin-off contracts for significant TETRA solutions compared to numbers of terminals. New sys- other technologies that has led tems are being contracted for to it becoming the preferred Transportation and Public solution for railway communicaSafety. The rest of the world is tion in Russia. accelerating fast, with the highData based on inputs from MoU est growth coming from Latin members as at September 2003 America and then the Asia
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Welcome to Denmark Dear Delegate, First of all I warmly welcome the TETRA World Congress 2003 and all its participants to Denmark. For the event to be taking place here seems very appropriate as Denmark has always been focused on being in the forefront with regards to introduction of modern technology within telecommunications. In Denmark the radio spectrum is managed by the National IT and Telecom Agency, and as the Director General of the Agency I am very pleased to see that there is a transition from analogue radio technologies towards digital radio technologies, as this ensures a more efficient use of the spectrum. I do hope that the TETRA World Congress 2003 will have some fruitful discussions with good results, and I hope that the fact that the conference is
Jørgen Abild Andersen, Director General of Denmark’s National IT & Telcom Agency, opens the World Congress
taking place in Denmark will stimulate the development of TETRA in Denmark. Hopefully this will help to demonstrate the advantages of TETRA to a wider public, and also help to ensure that TETRA becomes the success it deserves in Denmark.
Copenhagen’s buses choose TETRA The Greater Copenhagen Authority has chosen TETRA as the technology for its new digital radio communications network in the Copenhagen metropolitan area. Motorola has announced earlier this month that it has been awarded the contract to provide integrated voice and data communications between the metropolitan transport fleet of 1,200 buses, 2 ships and 30 trains. The network, according to Motorola, will help provide smoother operations in areas such as resource management, customer information (arrival times, locations) and security systems. Aiming for high standards “The introduction of digital radio communication will provide revolutionary opportunities to improve cross communic
In this issue: TETRA grows across the globe; Technology Debate - capacity vs range; Satellite links; TETRA in the Champions League; Military uses of TETRA demonstrated
ation between buses, trains and subways. The objective is to establish a new set of standards for communication within public transportation services,” says Mads Lebech, Chairman of HUR (Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd). TetraNet, the network operating company owned by Motorola, will be providing the network for this new service. Don’t miss the bus A presentation looking at ‘TETRA Communications for Transport in Copenhagen’ will be part of today’s conference programme: 17:05 - Transport & Utilities Stream. The presenters are HUR’s General Manager for IT, Mogens Buch-Larsen and Gert Vestergaard from NIRAS. If you want to hear more about HUR’s operational experiences with TETRA, make sure you take your seat early. World Congress News is brought to you by
WCN Greetings from the TETRA Association’s CEO
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This, the 6th World Congress, sees us in a new venue in Scandinavia. I am sure you will find the many benefits of this location will contribute in every sense to a successful event. This is a region with the longest experience of an operational TETRA system, with good prospects for many more and a number of national decisions in progress. The Congress, like the TETRA Association, has come a long way in the past five years, both have grown to a high level of maturity and improving them becomes ever more challenging. I believe that some of this year’s innovations, such as day tickets, have met that challenge and with the largest number of exhibitors ever, the opportunities for prospective users and for those developing their existing systems are the best yet. Likewise the Association has attracted 14 new members so far during
John Cox, TETRA MoU CEO
2003 with the prospect of more by the year end. The Association has been involved in a number of TETRA events around the world during 2003 but the TETRA World Congress is its main focus as a window on the global TETRA community. The Association, along with its members, save the best for this event. In the end, success is down to the whole community, the exhibition visitors, the conference delegates, the exhibitors, the speakers, the chairmen and the organisers. I thank you all for your contribution and wish the 6th TETRA World Congress continued success and, whether you are here to gain knowledge or improve your sales, I hope that you will enjoy and profit from the experience.
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Frequentis has announced its most recent development, the fourth generation TETRA solution, called ‘XTRAS’ (eXtensible Trunked RAdio System). The platform supports every application using SDS and packet data. Frequentis say that their XTRAS solution provides a flexible, fully digital, integrated communication system suitable for small and large organisations. At the TETRA World Congress, Frequentis is demonstrating X-
TRASdeployable, a completely portable TETRA system that can be used as a standalone system or in a network linked with existing base stations. To demonstrate the ultimate in mobility, their system is housed in a highly specialised all-terrain vehicle, the VAM-7. According to the company, this combination makes the XTRASdeployable an unbeatable operations partner for every situation, be it off-road in rugged terrain or on a mobile rescue operation.
WCN Softswitching simplifies solutions Rohill propose a simpler route to infrastructure solutions TETRA infrastructure solutions are often considered as being extremely complicated and difficult to manage. Rohill suggest their softswitch architecture used in TetraNode overcomes this obstacle by providing a simple and genuine open TETRA infrastructure solution. All of the signalling and speech data such as air interface encryption and end-to-end encryption needs to be pre-processed before switching due to the design of the TETRA protocol stack. They believe TETRA can benefit even
more from pure softswitch architectures than PABX solutions. Non-proprietary, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware and software platforms play an essential role to enable softswitch solutions. Rohill uses COTS hardware in their TetraNode which they believe reduces the risk of component obsolescence, reduces the system cost due to economy of scale of production and provides a longer lifetime for the investment. Visit their stand in the exhibition hall for more information.
Join us at the Tivoli gardens tonight Christmas is a magical time at the Tivoli when it is lit by 115,000 lights and the Christmas markets are in full swing. IIR is hosting a drinks reception at the Tivoli Gardens tonight in the Dansetten Bar at 19:00, after which you are free to enjoy the sights, sounds, rides and tastes of the
Gardens at Christmas. For those of you looking for culture, the Royal Danish Ballet is performing The Nutcracker in the Concert Hall or for something less taxing, the Crazy Christmas Cabaret is running at the Glass Hall Theatre. Contact the Tivoli direct to reserve seats.
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Velkommen til Danmark... On behalf of everyone involved in organising the TETRA World Congress 2003, I should like to welcome you here in Denmark. Whether this is your first time at a World Congress or you attend every year, I hope you find the event extremely useful and hugely enjoyable. This year’s conference will enable you to see how users are exploiting the flexibility, versatility and scalability of TETRA systems. Speakers in this morning’s plenary session will examine the current state of TETRA and opportunities for customisation; tomorrow’s presentations will enable you to view examples of TETRA innovation throughout the world and the key Getting there is easy. The Tivoli is just round the corner from Copenhagen’s main railway station (Hovedbanegården) and from the Bella Center
issues of security and disaster relief will be addressed on Thursday. The focused afternoon conference streams enable you to look at the specific challenges facing different market sectors. And in response to delegate feedback, we have moved the half day Masterclasses to Thursday afternoon. In addition to all of this there are varied social and networking opportunities to enjoy including an evening in the Tivoli gardens, the TETRA World Congress party and awards and a trip to Malmo on Thursday. Enjoy the Congress, Tom Davies,Producer, TETRA World Congress IIRTelecoms & Technology you take the Metro line M1 and change at Nørreport. Allow up to 30 minutes for your journey. So, get your skates on and don’t be late!
HARNESSING THE STRENGTHS OF TETRA This year Motorola celebrates 75 years of providing cutting edge TETRA communications to a global portfolio of public safety, government and commercial organisations that demand excellence. Our latest innovations include:
Always innovating to meet your mission-critical requirements
• Fully IP-based interoperable TETRA systems, terminals and accessories, command & control, managed services and mobile data applications • The Application Partner Programme, which provides a variety of mobile TETRA voice and data solutions, including AVL, CAD, fingerprint authentication, billing, fleet management and bus control systems • Becoming the first company to ship Class 3 encryption enabled terminals and infrastructure to our customers with the Dimetra SecureNet system
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Motorola, inc. 2001
For more information, please visit stand 56 or go to www.motorola.com/tetra
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number of radio terminals to be supported per base station site are shown in the table
capacity vs range
Doug Gray, author of ‘TETRA: The Advocate’s Handbook’ argues that range performance can be affected by capacity related factors, irrespective of the technology platform can be supported per base Range performance is usually limited by noise or interference station site. Assuming an equal distribution of 20,000 on low capacity networks, radio terminal users across a whereas in high capacity netlarge city covered by 12 TDMA works the range performance base station sites or 10 FDMA is usually limited by the number of trunked channels and/or sites (FDMA range perforthe radio terminal capacity that mance advantage of 20%), the
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Total Radio Terminal Population RF Range Advantage Factor Number of Base Station Sites Number of Radio Terminals per Base Station Site Number of Terminals per Communication Channel Number of Logical Channels Required per Base Station Site
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20,000 1.2 10 2,000
20,000 1 12 1,667
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32
(Assumes one communication channel supports 52 terminals for the required traffic and Grade of Service also assumes 4 time slot TDMA).
Capacity Limitation on RF Range Performance With a normal limit of 32 channels on a trunked base station, FDMA’s range advantage over TDMA is effectively removed. Capacity per base station site is now the limiting factor, which in many cases is manufacturer specific and not technology dependent. For example, the FDMA solution in the table would require two more base station sites to provide the required capacity, which is identical to the TDMA solution, thereby removing any RF coverage advantage FDMA has over TDMA. Interestingly, if the base station site channel capacity was limited to a maximum of 28 channels the FDMA solution would need more base station sites than the TDMA solution. ‘TETRA: The Advocate’s Handbook’ can be purchased on-line at www.tetraadvocate.com.
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China plans deployment in 350-370 MHz
At the 2nd China Digital Trunked Radio International Summit in Beijing in September, speakers from several Chinese Ministries outlined plans for the deployment of TETRA technology for use by the Public Safety authorities. One key factor in these plans was the availability of TETRA products in the 350 - 370MHz band. TETRA manufacturer Sepura launched and demonstrated its SRP2000 operating in the 350 370MHz frequency band at the conference. They also announced that the SRP2000 would be available with a Chinese User Interface enabling both Chinese characters to be displayed and Chinese text to be input via the keyboard.
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Beam me up Motorola.... NATO partners with Motorola to trial TETRA satellite links been successfully deployed The NATO C3 Agency over a satellite link. The link (Consultation, Command and spanned 72,000 km utilising Control Agency) and Motorola announced the successful trial 64 Kbits per second bandwidth and can be used to proof a satellite link between vide TETRA network coverage Motorola TETRA Dimetra IP in remote locations during infrastructure and a SATCOM occurrences such as natural (satellite communications) disasters, major incidents, ground station. peacekeeping efforts and disAccording to Motorola, this aster relief. should assist and the internaThe trial linked a military tional community to provide satellite communications quickly deployable, secure, ground station situated on top end-to-end communication in of a building in Copenhagen, new environments. to a Motorola transportable Jeppe Jepsen, Director of MBTS TETRA base station International Business connected to the NATO Relations, Motorola CGISS EMEA, said, “We are delighted ground station in The Hague. to cement our relationship with As the MBTS weighs just 70kg and is only 60cm tall it is NATO C3 Agency through the transportable and quick to success of this satellite link deploy, which saves time in trial. This is a continuation of mission-critical situations. our push to expand the appliThe compatibility of comcation of our TETRA system to mercial satellite link technoloall kinds of situations.” gy, like the INMARSAT According to Motorola, this (International Marine Satellite) is the first time a packetsystem, means that TETRA switched TETRA system has
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Chinese Metro opts for TETRA
operators can consider this technology commercially viable when providing coverage in unusual geographical locations. Secure calls are supported on encrypted handsets, with transmission channel, control channel and air interface transmissions robustly protected. Mr Jepsen continued, “This trial marks the next phase in commercially viable, easy-todeploy communications systems for special operations such as attendance at incident sites. We can deliver all this with a byword synonymous with Motorola and TETRA – Robust Security.”
Secure communications for personnel on the Shenzhen Metro train network, which serves four million commuters a year, will soon be delivered thanks to TETRA. Deliveries of Nokia’s digital TETRA professional mobile radio system to Shenzhen Metro Co., Ltd will begin at the end of 2003. “The TETRA professional mobile radio system with innovative digital mobile communication functions meets our needs. It is also the most costeffective solution,” said Cheng Rongmei, General Manager of Shenzhen Metro. As the system supplier, Nokia will provide Shenzhen Metro with its end-to-end solution and manage the installation and commissioning of all the TETRA system equipment as well as providing training and technical support. At the centre of the system will be the Nokia DXTip exchange, which enables connection of different components using an IP-based backbone in the public traffic area.
Terminal News
www.siemens.at/tetra Siemens Austria Electronics Plant Vienna and Sepura Limited have established a partnership for the production of Sepura’s second generation TETRA handportable terminal, the SRP2000. The agreement also covers the production of Sepura’s SRP1000 handportable and the SRM1000 mobile terminals. Siemens Austria has produced over 50,000 SRP2000 terminals since April 2002 and expects to produce well in excess of this number during 2004. In addition, Sepura’s new 2000 Series models of handportable and mobile terminals will also be produced at the Siemens factory in Austria Siemens will also market the Sepura SRP2000 handportable terminal under its own brand name of SHP-20
WCN Sepura and Teltronic team Coverage is the answer up to win at Real Madrid to network planning 6
The technology innovation department of the world famous Real Madrid football team has chosen a TETRA communications solution for their security staff. Users will include the VIP bodyguard team that provide personal security support to internation-
Fast set-up times The contracts were signed on the October 6 and the complete system was operational by October 21, in time for the Champions League match between Real Madrid and Partizan Belgrade the following day. The speed of installation,
al footballers such as David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane as well as the many VIP guests that visit the Real Madrid’s ‘Santiago Bernabeu’ stadium. The order was won by Teltronic, one of Sepura’s key international partners, after an evaluation of different communication technologies available by Real Madrid. Teltronic believes that voice quality and security were key factors for the decision to adopt TETRA.
Teltronic explained, owed a lot to the flexibility of its TETRA NEBULA infrastructure which is at the heart of the system. Real Madrid’s security personnel use Sepura’s SRP2000 handsets along with Teltronic’s DT410 dispatchers. According to the companies, this is a first for TETRA in terms of football stadium communications in Spain. This combined success for a Spanish and a UK-based company provided a footballing first - a home and an away win at the same time!
Airwave roll-out reaches half way mark O2 Airwave brings Britain’s emergency services a step closer to joined-up communications The advanced TETRA-based communications network for the emergency services, has now been delivered to more than 50% of the UK’s police forces. This is a major milestone in the progress Airwave is making towards a more ‘joined-up’ approach to communications for police, fire, ambulance and other ‘blue light’ services across the UK. According to O2 Airwave, they are on track for comple-
tion in 2005, in accordance with the £2.9bn PFI contract. Significantly, Airwave has recently been delivered to London’s Metropolitan Police Service, enabling their officers to use the technology from the middle of 2004. Already delivered to half the UK’s police forces, the remaining forces should come on board by the end of 2005. Peter Richardson, managing director at O2 Airwave
Nokia propose that base station coverage is at the heart of a cost effective solution usually sensible for the relaNetwork planning can be tively few users of a typical based on one of three possiTETRA network, where capacible approaches - minimize ty is not a problem. cost, maximise coverage or According to Nokia, any of achieve the highest capacity these approaches would benand quality. A typical TETRA efit from a radio access solunetwork has relatively few tion offering more coverage, users, making the cost of covsuch as their TB3 TETRA base erage per user often substantial. Coverage is planned to be station. A network design driven by costs would give better satisfactory for higher-power coverage with the same nummobile terminals, but there ber of sites. For a network may be annoying coverage designed for maximum covergaps for handhelds. The alterage, fewer sites would be native, providing maximum needed. Equally, a quality and coverage for handhelds like capacity driven plan could public cellular networks, sufachieve excellent indoor covfers the drawback of being very costly. The third approach erage as well as overlapping is to build redundant coverage, cells. Base stations with more coverage should help planto maximize the capacity and ners achieve the network they quality of service. This, again, is a costly approach and is not want.
Military tests of TETRA at ‘Combined Endeavor 2003’ TETRA technology performed well during ‘Combined Endeavor’, the international event that the United States European Command (USEUCOM) organises every year. Part of these activities is to test the use of new technologies in challenging, international military scenarios. The Esercito Italiano (Italian Army) deployed its tactical network TETRATAC for the first time at this year’s event. This is a purcommented: “We are continuing to help make Britain safer by delivering a system which enables interoperability between all the emergency services.” “We have now delivered Airwave to over half the UK’s police forces and all communities will benefit as more and more forces migrate from their old system onto the new service. We will shortly begin enabling the police to access the Police
pose-designed military TETRA system by Marconi Selenia Communications, using OTE “Elettra” technology. According to OTE, the field tests demonstrated TETRATAC’s high reliability, its ability to interface with existing military networks as well as interoperability with TETRA infrastructure and terminals on display from other manufacturers. They also reported great interest in their mobile DMO Gateway and Repeater. National Computer over Airwave, so data is becoming a reality too.” O2 Airwave is also bidding for national contracts with the fire and ambulance services and already serves one ambulance trust and two fire brigades. Highly secure, the system supplied by Motorola cannot be easily scanned. O2 is also licensed to offer Airwave to other public safety users.
WCN Are You a TETRA Advocate? Mark ONE answer only for each question with a large X. Please remember to put your name, company and email address on your entry. 1. What does the acronym TETRA mean? a) Trans European Trunked RAdio b) TErrestrial Trunked RAdio c) TErritorial Terminal RAdios 2. What is the range performance limitation of a TETRA Release 1 TMO network (ignoring received signal strength)? a) 85 km b) 38 km c) 58 km 3. What is the maximum protected data throughput of a single time slot TETRA channel? a) 2400 bps b) 4800 bps c) 9600 bps
4. What criteria would you use to show that TETRA is the logical technology choice for use as a wide area medium to high capacity network? a) Economics of TDMA for high capacity base station sites b) Range performance of base stations limited by coverage area traffic requirements in high capacity networks. c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’. 5. What is the maximum range performance of TETRA Direct Mode Operation (DMO)? a) 1 km b) 85 km c) Maximum range determined by received signal strength Your name:....................................................... Company name:.............................................. email:.................................................................
Please note: Hand your entry to IIR’s Reception staff at the Congress. The winner will be the first correct entry drawn during Thursday’s morning coffee break. The signed copy of Doug Gray’s book, ‘TETRA, the Advocate’s Handbook’ will be presented by the author at the closing address of the Congress. In all matters, the Editor’s decision is final.
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Largest ever TETRA exhibition This year sees the largest ever TETRA focused exhibition area in the world here at this year’s World Congress. You can’t miss it, quite literally, as you have to walk through it to get to the main conference room. But don’t just walk through it! Make sure you take the time during the Congress to look at the wide diversity of exhibits from 46 companies and organisations that have exhibits. The exhibition is open throughout the congress, and breaks have been planned to give you lots of opportunities to view the stands. Nordic strength In keeping with our location, nearly one third of the exhibitors this year will be companies from the Nordic region. Indeed, seven companies have bases in Denmark - making Denmark a TETRA industrial epicentre! Look for the article later in the week where the Danish contributions to the global TETRA industry are highlighted.
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Morning plenary session - main conference room
Afternoon Stream B - Transport & Utilities
Time
Time
Plenary Chair: Doug Gray, Chairman, ETSI Project TETRA 08:45 08:50 08:55
Topic
09:05 09:25 09:55
Welcome from IIR Opening remarks from the Chair Opening address from Jørgen Abild Andersen, Director General, NITA Customising the Strengths of TETRA TETRA for Public Protection & Disaster Relief (PPDR) TETRA for Public Safety & Emergency Services in Copenhagen
10:20 11:05 12:00 12:45
15:20 15:50
Afternoon break and opportunity to view the exhibition
Coffee and opportunity to visit the exhibition
16:35
Operational Experiences from the 3 Country Pilot Maximising the Benefits of the Scalability of TETRA Lunch and opportunity to view the exhibition
17:05 17:35
Examining how TETRA meets the radiocommunication requirements of TianJin LRT TETRA Communications for Transport in Copenhagen Closing remarks from the Chair
Session Chair: Hans Borgonjen, Head of Public Safety Telecommunications, ITO
Topic
14:15 14:20 14:50 15:20
Opening remarks from the Chair Building a Solution for the Kingdom of Bahrain SAMUR’s TETRA Voice & Data Services Automatic Person Location Technologies & Solutions for Public Safety Users
15:50
Afternoon refreshments and opportunity to view the exhibition
16:35 17:05 17:35
Assessing business process led Control Room communications NOAH project - Telemedicine application trials via TETRA Closing remarks from the Chair
14:15 14:20 14:50
Topic
Opening remarks from the Chair An advanced TETRA solution for SAS Copenhagen Airport Athens 2004 - implementing an Integrated Fleet Management & Telematic Supervision system Operational experiences of the Singapore Land Transport Authority
Afternoon Stream A - Public Safety, Government & Military Time
Session Chair: Jeppe Jepsen, Director of International Relations, Motorola
Afternoon Stream C - Deploying and Operating TETRA Networks Session Chair: Roger Dowling, Deputy Managing Director, Sepura
Time
14:15 14:20 14:50 15:20
Topic
Opening remarks from the Chair Measuring & Managing the total cost of ownership for TETRA networks Technical strategies for optimising TETRA performance State Security Networks, Finland: Advanced Customer Management for TETRA
15:50
Afternoon refreshments and opportunity to view the exhibition
16:35
Overcoming the transmission challenges faced when deploying Mobile Operation Centres Quality of Service measurements in TETRA networks Closing remarks from the Chair
17:05 17:35