The new frontier of the TETRA access network

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The new frontier of the TETRA access network

• Attilio BASILE
• Area Manager
• attilio.basile_at_selex-comms.com

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SUMMARY

• SCENARIOS
• WIRELESS FIRST IN M.C.O.E.
• REQUIREMENTS of PROFESSIONAL USERS
• MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGY
• DISTRIBUTED CONVERGENCE

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SCENARIOS

• Mostly, we can live with the errors that occur
  within our operating environment. We can restart,
  work around the problem, or even stop awhile.
  Unfortunately these responses are not always
  acceptable for the following reasons
• The failure endangers human lives.
• The failure causes great economic damage.
• The inability of the operators to carry out their
  tasks would be socially irresponsible.

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SCENARIOS

• The distinguished feauture of this type of
  operating environments is that their operating
  mission is the reason why the relevant (human)
  operating organization was created for.
• Failure within this type of operating
  environments is unacceptable.
• Such environment of operations are mission
  critical and are referred to as Mission Critical
  Operating Environments (MCOE)

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SCENARIOS
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WIRELESS FIRST in MCOE

• Wireless is the only way to provide the
• 3 Es in communications for MCOE

Voice ??

• EveryBody
• EveryWhere
• EveryTime

Data ??
Video ??
On a spatial-teme-individual need basis
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WIRELESS FIRST in MCOE

• Threats, hazards and needs of professional users
  are growing in complexity, frequency, scale and
  scope. This is particularly evident in the area
  of ICT capabilities.
• The field experience of professional users has
  made clear the need for next-generation ICT
  capabilities which provide for wireless broadband
  data access, interoperability, increased
  security, technical inter-operability, user
  transparency over myriad technological platforms
  and applications.

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REQUIREMENTS

• Voice Broadband data
• Secure and interoperable capabilities
• Multiple users with multiple applications
• Self-establishing and self-healing network nodes
• IP-based mobile networking
• Robust management and control systems
• Flexible existing infrastructure dependence
• Dynamic and flexible radio configuration
• Real-time digital voice, video and sensing
• Clear photos, complex graphics and drawings files
• Enhanced telemetry information (including
  bio-info)
• Maintain integrity/security of national networks

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MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGY
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MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGY

• Backbone based on Optical Fibre, Radio Links,
  WiMAX PMP and Satellite technologies
• Access via TETRA, GSM-R, Analogue
  Simulcast/Conventional, LAN, WiMAX, WiFi, and
  Satellite technologies, with extensions to sensor
  networks, and meshed and ad-hoc networks.
• Gateway to public networks (PSTN, GSM, UMTS,
  Internet), private networks (VPN) and special
  communication systems

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MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGY

• Future integrated systems network access will be
  available via TETRA solution, analogue trunked
  solution, 2G and 3G solutions, WiMAX, LAN and
  Satellite to guarantee the use of the most
  suitable information highway to satisfy specific
  operation requirements, while gateway to public
  networks (PSTN, Mobile, Internet), private
  networks (VPN) and special communication systems
  is managed at their distributed network center
  level.

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DISTRIBUTED CONVERGENCE

• Audio (TETRA, Analogue radio, GSM etc)
• Messagges (SDS, SMS, email etc)
• Automatic Vehicle/Person Location
• Data Base Access
• Sensors

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DISTRIBUTED CONVERGENCE

• Control, management and command/decisions head
  of the new frontiers integrated systems for
  professional and emergency organizations are
  based on a distributed-intelligence (resilient)
  approach where operation decision makers at
  different level communicate with individuals,
  groups and all network users remotely manage and
  control equipment, vehicles and sensors
  (position, alarms) regardless of the type of
  communication technology utilized, including hub
  to both external public and private networks and
  to their own networks and renders them
  interoperable and able to communicate with each
  other.