DAMM - Flyaway networks, wideband data

Among the latest products from the Danish infrastructure manufacturer Damm is its Rapid Deployable TetraFlex (RDT) package, a fully featured, preconfigured mobile TETRA system in a flyaway box. Suggested applications include handling emergencies such as road accidents, natural disasters and search-and-rescue operations in remote rural areas.

“It has up to two hours of battery power inside and it can be operated with the lid closed”, says Bettina Leth Johannsen, of Damm. “You have all the connectors behind and fan cooling. It’s running now! So within a few minutes you can be on the air. And you can just connect them together and even to a multi-site, like if you have bigger areas of catastrophe, like Haiti.”

But the main focus of Damm’s display was a wideband data capability for its TetraFlex network infrastructure, using IP technology to connect to fixed and mobile data networks, including 3G, LTE, CDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMax or even cable. “What we are doing is a full integration of wideband into TETRA, with full encryption and authentication, actually through any smartphone, tablet device or anything”, Ms Johannsen explains. “I would be able now to call the dispatcher or any other smartphone terminal connected to this or any TETRA terminal, in a group call or individual call, and I can do file transfer, video streaming, photo transfer, directly to the dispatcher.

“Now you can sit on your holiday in Malaysia or wherever and call into your TETRA network right away, directly from your smartphone.”