Cassidian equips Border Police in all Romanian Border counties with interoperable TETRA network
Real-time information sharing possibilities between Border Police and security forces during joint operations improved
The Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI) and
Cassidian have completed successfully the rigorous testing programme of
the Inter-System Interface (ISI), in accordance with the TETRA
interoperability standards, between Cassidian and PHARE Motorola TETRA networks.
Thus,
the Cassidian Border Security project, SISF (Integrated System for
Border Security) will provide the Romanian Border Police with a coherent
TETRA network in all the border counties. Furthermore, SISF will
constitute the TETRA national platform for all governmental security
forces in these counties.
After several years of development and
promotion of the interoperability concept between the TETRA networks,
full certified interoperability has become a reality between both the
Romanian TETRA systems.
The ISI offers an extended coverage to
both Cassidian TETRA and PHARE TETRA users, who will now have the
benefit over the TETRA national platform of all locally available
services (Air Interface Encryption, Authentication, Packet Data
Services, Short Data Messaging), as well as cross system communications
(individual calls, PABX calls and Short Data Services between terminals
located in different networks).
Thanks to radio terminals
automatic roaming feature, the selection of the visited network is done
without user interaction allowing a smooth roaming within the TETRA
national platform.
The ISI is also a key component for the
integration of the Border Police Automatic Vehicle Location solution to
share positioning information between Border Police and the TETRA
national platform security forces.
The ISI solution is a key milestone of the challenging roadmap specified by Romania MAI to offer to its end-users:
- Nation-wide secure voice communications and data messaging;
- On demand cooperation or joint working of different agencies forces;
- An extensive portfolio of mission critical mobile applications;
- Enhanced high speed data mission critical application.
This
step is a major milestone for the ongoing delivery of the Cassidian
border security project in Romania as well as for the overall TETRA
users' community where interoperability is essential.
Source: www.sourcesecurity.com
