First Responders around the world demand mission-critical capable communication networks and applications. For this reason, the PowerTrunk-T TETRA infrastructure was designed over ten years ago following no-single-point-of-failure principles. In addition, embedded applications such as Synchronous Data Manager (SDM) and others allow users to implement truly optimized solutions.
Public Safety
TETRA or P25?
Based on its well-proven, resilient PowerTrunk-T HW platform, PowerTrunk25 was developed to offer TETRA and/or P25 solutions in a single network. While P25 is the traditional land mobile radio standard for public safety in North America, TETRA was indeed designed to serve the public-safety community worldwide. Today there are TETRA networks that serve first responders in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, UAE, Lebanon, South Africa, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil and other countries. PowerTrunk is proud to have supplied many of these, including Rio de Janeiro’s Public Safety TETRA network and the Brazilian Federal Highway Police TETRA system with over 700 radio sites. For the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the Military Police and other first responders will rely on a TETRA network supplied by PowerTrunk as they likewise did during the FIFA World Cup 2014.
Present and Future
In North America, PowerTrunk’s policy is therefore to propose the best of both standards, TETRA and P25, which can be combined to implement hybrid solutions depending on user requirements. For this purpose, PowerTrunk conducts a continuous and comprehensive certification process to assure all its products are compliant with the applicable Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada rules in regard to radio emission requirements and interoperability. P25 is the present, but TETRA could be part of the future for US and Canadian first responders.
LTE Overlays
Narrowband land mobile radio is not the only technology PowerTrunk advocates. While TETRA and P25 will remain as the preferred and necessary choices for mission-critical applications, the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard achieves a greater degree of maturity every day. A new range of LTE products is being developed by PowerTrunk to address the professional market. Though LTE is known by the public as 4G, the dominant standard for commercial cellular systems, LTE can also serve the purpose of complementing narrowband LMR systems to offer much higher data throughput at certain hot spots and/or wider areas of first responders’ interest.
For all these reasons, PowerTrunk advocates hybrid systems to combine the benefits of TETRA, P25, and LTE, as deemed appropriate and necessary to address its customers’ requirements.
Advanced CAD
PowerTrunk’s veteran CeCoCo® Series is continuously upgraded with additional features and technologies. Built around a powerful digital switching matrix that can be cascaded for scalability, CeCoCo redundant servers support several applications to allow users for implementing a variety of dispatching solutions. Its Service, Communications, GIS, and Video modules cover all possible user requirements. In addition, it can be connected to PowerTrunk’s LMR and LTE infrastructures through high-speed Ethernet/IP lines to save valuable radio resources for other purposes. Flavored CeCoCo configurations such as CeCoFleet, CeCoTrans, and CeCoCo for 911 are available.
Benefits
A Single Multi-Technology Infrastructure
- Unified redundant Network Controller.
- Minimal Base Station HW by sharing common elements (power supply, combiners, etc.).
- Single control room application with patching and communication capabilities.
- PSTN/PABX access restricted per fleet.
- Seamless private and group calls between TETRA and P25.
- LTE Overlay (high-res video, fast database access, etc.).
Integrated Mission Critical Voice and Broadband Data
- Combined mission-critical voice and broadband data in a single network.
- Unbeatable coverage footprint.
- Dynamic resource selection at the Network Operation Center.
- Sharing network elements optimizes OPEX and increases ROI.
Subscriber Radios
- First Responders: Interoperable subscribers with basic display.
- Operations: Cost-effective subscribers with GPS, Bluetooth, and WAP Browser.
Public-safety-oriented Products
HTT500-2
A powerful radio terminal capable of operating on 25 kHz-wide channels in the 764-870 MHz band in TETRA mode and 12.5 kHz-wide designated nationwide interoperability channels in P25 mode, selectable through the user menu.
Its built-in GPS device allows for locating the unit in CAD systems employing either raster or vector digitized maps. Usable in noisy environments such as airports and industrial settings due to its outstanding background noise cancellation capabilities and cellular-like speech quality.
Based on the same technology used by the national police forces of Germany, U.K., Belgium, The Netherlands, South Korea, Malaysia, and other countries, and by state/regional first responders in Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and others, it provides the benefits of a large eco-system.
NOTE: This equipment has been declared to CFIUS as "Covered Products" and indicating that they are TETRA/P25. The equipment unequivocally complies with all applicable public safety standards.
CeCoCo® Series: Coordination and Control Center solutions
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The CeCoCo® Series provide comprehensive solutions for multi-agency and multi-function Computer Aided Dispatch. The high-performance, unmatched reliability and easy scalability of the CeCoCo range allows different configurations to meet the requirements of different operational functions such as:
- Law Enforcement, EMS, and Fire dispatch
- 911 call centers
- Intelligent Transport Dispatch
- General purpose CAD
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The CeCoCo design allows the system to exceed the requirements of a control center:
- Process and resolve incidents efficiently, achieving fast response times.
- Resource optimization allows considerably reducing displacement time and costs.
- Resources integration allows for coordinating operators and entire organizations.
- Smooth migration planning and interoperability with legacy systems.
Frequency Bands / Regulations
TETRA
- 409-430 MHz – IC RSS-119
- 450-470 MHz – FCC Part 90 / IC RSS-119
- 806-870 MHz – IC RSS-119
- 809-824/854-869 MHz – FCC Part 90
- 764-870 MHz(*) – FCC Part 90 – 90.221, 90.547, 90.548. 90.203(i) / IC RSS-119
TETRA-interoperable D-LMR (TI D-LMR) – ADDITIONAL BANDS
- 806-809/851-854 MHz (currently subject to a freeze pending on FCC Rulemaking)
- 409-470 MHz – FCC Parts 90 & 22 (data modem, subject to FCC license approval)
P25
- 409-470 MHz – FCC Part 90 / IC RSS-119
- 764-870 MHz – FCC Part 90 / IC RSS-119