TETRA Experience Poland

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TETRA Experience Poland

• Public Safety Shared Networks
• Kees Verweij
• ISC/C2000

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Background and involvement in TETRA

• ISC involved in TETRA since the early start in
  1990
• Myself representing the Netherlands in
  Operator/User Association,Technical Forum and
  ETSI TCTETRA
• C2000 project in the Netherlands country-wide
  shared TETRA network for Police, Fire brigade,
  Ambulance and Military Police

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Agenda

• How it starts (in the Netherlands)
• Pros and cons of a Shared Network
• Consequences
• The choices to make
• NL, Fin, B and UK experience
• Summary and conclusions

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How it starts (in the Netherlands)

• The old situation in the Netherlands
• gt100 small analogue Public Safety radio networks
  using gt1600 sites in total
• In 1 area 7 or more separate Public Safety radio
  networks
• Growing user demand for
• Enhanced features (status, AVLS, mobile data
  applications)
• Cooperation with other Public Safety
  organisations
• Cooperation with other areas
• Higher security
• More capacity
• Police and fire brigade developed a plan for
  their own, separate national digital trunking
  system

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How it starts (in the Netherlands)

• Political decision Their will be one, shared PS
  radio network C2000
• Will be built and operated under responsibility
  of the government
• Should cover the user requirements of
• Ambulance
• Police
• Fire Brigade
• Military police

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The benefits of sharing

• Operational
• Common and enhanced functionality, coverage and
  security
• Possibilities for closer cooperation and new
  procedures
• Multi-disciplinary fleetmap
• Common control rooms
• Cross border operation
• Economics
• One network built and managed by a dedicated
  organisation (Policemen should be out on the
  street catching criminals)
• Larger volumes ? Lower prices for radios
• High network capacity to the users (trunking
  efficiency)
• Environment
• Lower number of base stations sites

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Perceived disadvantages of sharing

• Tied to the operator no direct influence on
• Functionality
• Coverage
• Reliability
• Security
• Other users
• Operator
• Capacity
• Guarantee during large incidents

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Overcoming disadvantages

• Before roll-out
• To ensure that user requirements are met by the
  network
• User organisations should be involved in setting
  the requirements for the network
• The user organisations should closely work
  together on
• A national fleetmap structure including talkgroup
  priority settings
• After roll-out
• To ensure that the operator performs
• User organisations should be represented in the
  political body controlling the operator
• To fully exploit the possible advantages users
  should work on
• Common radio procurement providing a frame
  contract
• Common control room procurement?

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The consequences

• Big investment
• High profile political environment
• Media attention
• External audits
• Extra requirements
• Should be future proof
• Should enable international cooperation?
• Common control rooms?
• Many parties with different backgrounds involved
• High complexity

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The consequences

• Higher requirements
• cost explosion
• extra delay
• Develop a procedure between central government
  and users to define and weigh the user
  requirements

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The choices to make Potential Sharers

• Decision on permitted sharers dependent on
  National Governments and importance of national
  response to a major disaster or emergency
• Emergency Services
• Government organisations
• Military
• Utilities
• Transport
• Others

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The choices to make Operator models

• Government Operator
• Dedicated organisation
• Pro flexibility for adding coverage, capacity,
  new functionality
• Con efficiency?, technical challenge
• Commercial Operator
• Long term detailed contract with professional
  commercial organisation
• Pro clear responsibility
• Con long term commitment?, less direct influence
  on coverage, capacity, new functionality

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The choices to make Fee/Cost Structure

• How to split/differentiate between organisations
• Same price for primary users and secondary users?
• Number of radios
• Usage of the network
• Different cost structures
• Monthly fee per radio/user organisation
• Pro Stimulates the operator to perform
• Con Users may hesitate to use the new network
• Central budget
• Pro Stimulates the users to use the new network
• Con The operator may not perform and become
  inefficient
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for use of
  network
• Clear agreement on operator performance
• (Monthly) reports showing network performance and
  actual usage

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The Netherlands Experience

• Main organisations Police, Fire Brigade,
  Ambulance, Military police
• 25 multi-disciplinary control rooms
• gt20 other Public Safety related organisations
  have limited access under responsibility of one
  of the main organisations
• Government operator, central budget
• Highlights
• During the project Ambulance and Firebrigade have
  strongly improved their organisation structure
• Successful large scale multi-disciplinary
  disaster training in April 2006

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Belgium Experience

• Network was built for more than 15 organisations,
  including
• Ambulance
• Fire brigade
• Customs
• Semi-government operator, monthly fee
• Highlights
• In the procurement 20 parties from 7 Ministries
  were involved
• It has been hard to level the requirements of all
  the parties

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Finnish Experience

• Network built for wide user community, currently
  more than 20 different organisations, including
• Police
• Fire and Rescue service
• Frontier Guard
• Military
• Social and Health service
• Municipalities
• Government operator, monthly fee
• Highlights
• Operational since 2002
• Common control rooms

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UK Experience

• Network was built for Police
• Commercial operator, monthly fee
• Highlights
• No participation from Fire brigade and Ambulance
  in beginning
• Common sense prevailed and both Ambulance and
  Fire chose to be a subscriber to Airwave
• Next step sharing common control rooms

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Polish experience?

• Who will be the users of a Public Safety TETRA
  network in Poland?

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Common causes for historical problems

• Emergency services have a different background
  and different organisation structures
• government departments
• Area
• Financing model
• Organisation grade
• Operational need
• Level of technical knowledge
• .. which make it hard to work together on a
  project
• High media attention can introduce extra project
  complexity

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Summary Conclusions

• Building a national Shared Public Safety Network
• has many advantages to the users and the
  government
• the possible disadvantages can be handled
• is complex (mainly organisational)
• Successful examples in B, Fin, NL and UK
• A successful project for a Shared Network depends
  on getting and keeping all parties involved!

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Thank You!!

• Questions??