BDBOS Introduces new Feature on German Public Safety TETRA Network

In order to improve the signalling capacity in the BOS digital radio network, already last year the organisation opened up the possibility of using further control channels.

The new technology automatically checks the utilisation of the individual control channels of a base station and selects the last-smallest control channel. The function can now be used by all authorised authorities of the different counties and the Federal Government, by setting the corresponding parameters in the user management for SCCH-enabled terminals.

Several counties had asked the BDBOS to introduce the function. 

In order to test the functionality in realistic conditions, BDBOS carried out tests on the BOS digital radio network with the support of the Länder, for example during a field test at the Berlin Olympiastadion in April this year, at police stations in Berlin Walpurgisnacht, the DFB Cup final in the Olympiastadion and during demonstrations in Dresden.