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In Singapore, Singapore Prison Services took on the first TETRA system for a public safety agency in the country. Phase One was fully operational by the end of 2004. In the following year, Motorola TETRA equipment worth US$5.4 million was commissioned at the PSA Singapore Terminal, the world’s largest trans-shipment container hub) to replace disparate analogue radio systems with an integrated digital platform. Other TETRA successes for Motorola in the region have included a TETRA system in Shanghai to support the 9th Special Olympics in 2007: from more than 150 sites across the city, four trunked networks delivered service to over 10?000 users. systems for the Beijing Urban Transit Railway Corporation. Underlining the popularity of using TETRA in the region’s public transport, the Beijing municipal authority’s four light rail lines built before the 2008 Olympics are all equipped with mutually interoperable TETRA communications systems. Medium-sized systemsCassidian (formerly EADS Defence & Security) has enjoyed a series of successes in the Asia Pacific region with its Claricor TETRA technology for small and medium-sized networks. Suitable for systems ranging from a single site to networks supporting several thousand subscribers, Claricor is designed to meet the needs of airports, industry and transport sectors, with many of the advanced functions of larger networks. Orders have included a contract with HyunDai Oilbank in Korea for a system with one base station and more than 200 mobile and portable terminals, and five systems for Supreme Landmobile & Wireless (SLW), in Malaysia, one of the most country’s successful licensed 800 MHz operators. One of these systems, with more than 600 TETRA radios in use, secures A TETRA network from Cassidian also provided secure communication services during last year’s 26th World University Games in China, through a contract with the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau. Energy industryAnother infrastructure supplier, Team Simoco, last year completed the supply of a TETRA system for the Badak liquid natural gas plant in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in partnership with a local systems integrator, PT Alssa. With the capacity to process over 22 million tonnes a year, the plant supplies customers in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Its single-site TETRA-G system covers an area of around 220 square kilometres from a single four-carrier transmission site, supporting more than 500 users equipped with intrinsically safe handportables. The system has fully-redundant switching for maximum reliability and a gateway which connects to legacy analogue networks. Frequency shiftTerminal manufacturer Sepura has also enjoyed many successes in the Asia-Pacific region. In the mid-2000s, for example, the company became one of the largest TETRA radio suppliers to the military in South Korea when its handportables were selected by the Korea Combat Training Centre in the city of Inje. They were customized to operate at the 368?MHz frequency specifically required by the KCTC – an unusual frequency for a TETRA system. Also in Korea, in early 2007, South Korea’s National Emergency Management Agency approved Sepura TETRA radio terminals for use on the country’s nationwide public safety network, when that network was entering its first phase of deployment. In the same year, a contract was signed to supply the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency with more “This order follows other significant sales to government, public safety and industrial sectors in Korea”, commented Kevin Graham, regional director for Sepura, at the time. “The National Emergency Management Agency project is one of the biggest and most important TETRA deployments anywhere in the world today, and we are excited that we will be playing a major role in supplying terminals into it as high numbers of users migrate over the next few years.” Hotels and hospitalityBy the end of 2007, Sepura had also homed in on the Australian marketplace, supplying handheld radios to the Hyatt Regency Sanctuary Cove resort in the city of Gold Coast, Queensland, replacing analogue radios. Also in Gold Coast, one of Sepura’s Australian channel partners, Trans Communications, later implemented its first TETRA digital system in Queensland within a commercial environment, at the Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. Radios were supplied to a variety of users within the centre for personnel location, management, maintenance, security and cleaning services. And another Gold Coast deal was secured last year when the Gold Coast Suns, a new professional Australian Rules football team, chose Sepura TETRA radios for all aspects of their operations. The system includes Damm TETRA infrastructure and 140 Sepura terminals.
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