LTE  |  2022-01-14

Beijing Winter Olympics Security Forces Select POCSTARS Push-to-talk Solution

Source: The Critical Communications Review | Gert Jan Wolf editor

Being able to provide PoC services for this event’s security forces is another strong reference of the versatility and security of POCSTARS’ solution.

POCSTARS,a world leading Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) solution provider, has been selected as a communications technology provider for the General Armed Police Corps of Hebei Province, the major force to safeguard of the Winter Olympics venues, such as Chongli Stadium and Guyangshu Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou City. The Beijing Winter Olympic Games will be officially greeting the world on February 4, 2022.

To ensure the complete fulfilment of responsibility they were assigned to, Hebei Armed Police chose POCSTARS’ latest version PoC communications and management platform in October 2021. The system supports a long list of features, including private call, group call, temporary call, priority call, interrupt or forced call, positioning, track playback, temporary enable and disable, SOS alert, text and multimedia messages, video streaming, private and conference video call, video recording, etc.

The deployment was divided into two phases. During the first phase, POCSTARS PoC platform was subjected to numerous interoperability tests along with a lot of different communications devices; POCSTARS team did an excellent job in delivering all the software adaption timely. All the PoC user and admin accounts have been set up and handed to the customer. With the first phase completed, POCSTARS is now finetuning the system, in which dedicated PoC radios and smartphones finally chosen by Hebei Armed Police will operate.

The Beijing Winter Olympic Games is a grand event that attracts worldwide attention. Being able to provide PoC services for this event’s security forces is another strong reference of the versatility and security of POCSTARS’ solution. As a world's leading PoC solution provider, POCSTARS promotes public and private convergence communication solution tailored for clients to ensure their timely and unobstructed communication experience. Its PoC solutions, very adaptive to customers’ requirement, support flexible and diverse deployment methods. The solutions are applicable in working scenarios of public safety, security, logistics, transportation, healthcare and enterprise.