Alcatel-Lucent Shows TETRA over LTE Solution
The demo consisted of a single voice & data terminal with a TETRA software client from infrastructure supplier Rohill
Article written by: Peter Bernstein, Senior Editor
Private Mobile Radio (PMR) sits at the top of the
“mission critical” marketplace. Major users are public safety
organizations, transportation companies, utilities, governments, the
military and a host of commercial enterprises such as energy companies
and industrial organizations. They all share unique but common needs.
- Highly reliable, always available secure communications
- Ability to reach geographically dispersed mobile individuals and groups with real-time continuous, quality communications for each individual and ad hoc group interactions that now rely more and more on the dissemination and processing of “rich” data
- Ability to provide such capabilities in hostile and ever-changing environments
- A growing need to have fully-featured access to the public network to reach other critical resources to improve response times and coordination
Historically, PMRs by their design and purpose have been closed
islands with limited capacity and capabilities. Everyone felt the need
for their own private network. However, increased risks, the enormity of
possible emergencies and the need for more rapid, far-reaching and
coordinated reactions from all members of responder ecosystems have
accelerated matters. The need to upgrade or replace the aged base of
analog systems with digital ones with state-of-the-art functionality in
terms of features and functionality is strong. In fact, the need to be
able to quickly and efficiently disseminate and process text and visual
media (static and dynamic, in real time or stored and streamed), has
become paramount.
To overcome the limitations of older technology and eliminate the boundaries that hindered coordinated rapid response, in the late 1990s the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) standard was first proposed and implemented primarily in Europe....
...At the TETRA World Congress in Budapest, Alcatel Lucent showed the fruits of its labors with a demonstration of TETRA communications over an LTE network. The demo consisted of a single voice and data terminal with a TETRA software client (from the infrastructure supplier Rohill) communicating with other TETRA terminals, over an LTE network transporting voice (TETRA) and data
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