Lithuania Dekbera RAdioNet Network - NEXEDGE instead of TETRA
Since the first phase of network development in the Republic of Lithuania in 2012, the Dekberra's RAdioNet has grown to Europe's largest NEXEDGE trunking system.
Kenwood Communications UK yesterday published the news that Europe’s Largest NEXEDGE® Digital Trunking System now covers over 90% of the Republic of Lithuania’s 65,300 km² landmass and virtually 100% of its population.
The network is mainly used for the Lithuanian Ambulance Service and since joining the network, the service experiences reduced call to arrival times and optimisation of regional crews and fleet.
Previously, the Ambulance Service fleet, consisting of 265 vehicles and 56 dispatch centres were using a variety of communications systems from analogue to TETRA and when the Ministry of Health made the decision to improve service efficiency by streamlining the dispatch into 10 county based centres, it became clear that a key requirement would be for a mission critical communications system that would cover the country and connect all ambulance services to each other. At that time, two main systems were considered; TETRA and NEXEDGE® from Kenwood.
Today, the system currently handles over 4.1 million GPS tracking transmissions, 270,000 SMS Status messages, 68,000 SDMs and thousands of voice calls each month.
According to Deividas Barzda, who is keeping a close eye on the networks’ performance the network now uses fewer sites, optimum bandwidth utilisation, significantly streamlined infrastructure, bullet-proof reliability and relatively simple interoperability interfaces were just some of the additional benefits realised”. more..
