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www.commsinternational.com


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Comms International designs, implements and

takes management responsibility or people-2-people & machine-2-machine critical communica-

tions solutions within the global Mining and O/On-shore Oil&Gas Industries as well as or Port

and Rail.

Contents:

1-2 Introducing Communications International

3-4 Valueing relationships

5-6 Enabling communication, taking responsibility

7-8 Valued clients & partners

9-10 Mining

11-12 An evolving mining environment

13-14 Oil, Gas & Pipeline

15-16 O-shore & On-shore

17-18 Pipelines: an expansive challenge

19-20 Rail

21-22 Asset Management & Asset Protection

23-24 Port

25-26 Communications Engineering & Support

27-28 Occupational Health & Saety

29-30 Contact us

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Comms International is a corporation ounded on

the principles o valuing people and partnerships.

It is driven by the motivation to create long lasting

relationships that deliver purpose and positive out-

comes or our clients and team members.

Comms Internationals oundation is Communica-

tions Australia, which has been integrating and

maintaining communications solutions or the re-

sources industry since 1994.

Comms International is a privately owned compa-

ny with highly successul, capable and active board

o directors and owners, with signicant mining,

nance and technology expertise.

Communications Australias value is predicated on

the knowledge and certied expertise and experi-

ence acquired across many industry sectors ranging

rom Resources and Mining, Insurance, Healthcare

and Education to Government, Manuacturing and

Transportation, to name but a ew; this is an experi-

ence oundation, which positions Comms Interna-

tional uniquely within the industries it serves.

Communications Australia acquired the Enterprise

business unit o Commander in 2009. This was a

signicant acquisition in that it provided the com-

pany with scale, additional skilled sta and access

to on-going valuable customer relationships which

operate globally.

Comms International & its sister company Com-

munications Australia is progressing its strategy

o corporate growth through a combination o com-

pany acquisitions, organic growth and multinational

partnerships.

Comms International is also l everaging our rela-

tionships with existing Multinational clients in Aus-

tralia who wishe to have the same level o Commu-

nications Technology excellence in other markets.

A large portion o the Comms International per-sonnel interact directly with customers in their pro-

vision o highly specialised and technical services.

Focused on high growth industries such as Mining

and Oil/Gas which all have technical skill shortages

the Comms Groups talent bank is a competitive

advantage.

ValuIng relatIonshIps

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The common red thread that ties together the indus-

tries we serve is that the resource assets (mining or

oil/gas), logistics (rail, air-, seaports) coupled with the

human resources required to undertake the projects

are never, or rarely, located conveniently together in

a technologically developed geographical region.

With little, to no telecommunications in most o the

emerging resource rich areas o the world, last mile

connectivity is one o the biggest hurdles that our

customers ace today.

In technologically developed areas, analogue legacytechnologies and non synchronised, or incorrectly

designed, digital solutions have created crowded re-

quency regions, which represents barriers and limi-

tations, hampering productivity and creating saety

concerns.

Comms International enables the whole spectrum

o last mile connectivity solutions as well as a cost

eective migration rom Analogue to Digital inra-

structure, which in many cases circumvents existing

legacy options such as expensive Satellite communi-

cations or the construction o costly telecom towers.

The net outcome o innovative Digital Radio / Telem-

etry systems communications solutions such as Tetra

and APCO P25 Technology standards are justiable

CapEx couple with true ownership o your voice,

data, video and machine-2-machine communications

inrastructure, yielding low OpEx.

Comms International is based on 15 years o excel-

lence within the Radio Communications & Technolo-

gy integration market in the Australia Pacic Region.

We are ortunate to attract and retain some o the

worlds leading Communications Engineers who are

directly involved in the design and management oour dierent solutions.

It is Comms Internationals goal to continue to grow

in new markets, leveraging our cu rrent 4,000 strong

client base and case experiences to attract and

retain the best-o-breed talent.

enablIng CommunICatIon,

takIng responsIbIlIty

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some oF our ValueD ClIents:

teChnology partners:

Comms International has established solid and long relationships with the lead-

ing global communication technology manuacturers, allowing us to leverage global

experiences and manuacturer resources when designing, implementing and support

communications solutions at customer sites across the globe.

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Comms Internationals in-depth knowledge o open pit mining,broad range o past project cases, project challenges overcome

in many dierent markets & environments across the world

throughout the whole liecycle o mining projects allows us to

uniquely deliver cost-eective, relevant, as well as technologi-

cally advanced & robust solutions in a sae manner.

Comms Internationals in-depth knowledge o open pit mining,

broad range o past project cases, challenges overcome in a

range o dierent markets and environment across the world

throughout the whole liecycle o mining projects allows us to

uniquely deliver cost-eective, relevant, advanced and robust

technology solutions.

A global mining client, as well as a regional mining clients cor-

porate technology ambitions and standards are always hard to

take rom the drawing board through to an implemented andcontinuously managed solution spanning multiple mining assets.

Comms International enables the rapid deployment o tech-

nology and communications services across markets and coun-

tries based on our in-house expertise and experience as well as

our global technology partners.

Comms International believes that Mining Communication

done right, which incl udes people-2-people and machine-2-

machine communication, should yield clear and measurable

improvements within:

Safety

Productivity

reliability

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Comms Internationals ambition is to achieve the status o

Value Partner to our global and regional mining clients by tai-

loring, deploying and managing reliable solutions or voice and

data, which will increase overall site eciencies within areas

such as production mining and beneciation as well as always

within the area o saety.

Comms International also designs, implements and manages

machine-monitoring solutions, machine-2-machine solutions

allowing our clients to partner on even the most production

critical applications.

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Our approach or both Communications Enabling and Technol-

ogy Deployment is truly objective and value ocused, aiming

solely at a sae operative outcome, rather than preerred pre-

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As a mining project goes through its dierent lie phases, the as-

set owners priorities change, CapEx sensitivity fuctuates with

the economical cycles as well as regulatory conditions with one

exception, which is saety.

Comms International has developed a wide array o Integrat-

ed Communications Solution or the ever changing environmento open pit mining project such as:

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Comms International developed & deployed a Mobile Mesh Solution, allow-ing or high-speed data connectivity o all equipment and people across the25 square km mine site. Technology such as the Trimble GPS & Wi-Fi antennaspictured was tted to approx. 140 pieces o heavy duty CAT equipment, ena-bling machine operations instructions in real time & machine tracking as parto a ully autonomous mine operations dispatch and control system.

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Comms International recognises that secure, real-time fow o

inormation (voice, data and video), people-2-people as well as

site-2-site communication within all acets o a acility is para-mount or saety and eciency.

Comms International single source, ull range Communication

Technology alternatives or onshore and oshore projects, xed

or foating, is designed per project with a lietime perormance

in mind, taking into account current and uture integration capa-

bilities and the fexibility to evolve with the needs o a project.

The Communications requirements or Pipeline projects, the

need or complete automatisation, many times tying together

multiple plants and pipeline networks poses its own u nique

challenges and skillsets.

Comms International needs to account or the remoteness

o these types o projects as well as the many security issues,

which surrounds projects o this nature, requiring both long-term communications technology commitments and uture-

proving.

Comms Internationals ocus or pipeline projects is to meet all

o our clients expressed technology needs, but also to ensure

reliability and serviceability, opting or standardised approaches

and system designs that are ailsae and easily migrated/merged

with possible 3rd party maintenance and support providers.

The special emphasis on these actors are made not only due

to the critical role the pipeline network plays, but also based

on the enormous geographical and environmental oot print a

pipeline network represents, which could result in devastating

consequence i breached.

Comms Internationals ability to bring high-speed and reliable

communication solutions to the most remote locations allowsor next generation o-site monitoring and control over vast

territories.

Comms Internationals approach to communications technolo-

gies, be it onshore, oshore or or pipeline networks is to ocus

on streamlining technology choices through our single source

technology integration model.

A streamlined approach to communications technologies

impacts the ull range o hardware and sotware components

that makes up a solution, all the way through to maintenance,

upgrades, project areas synchronisation as well as training.

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Comms Internationals ability to Design, Implement and Support

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technologies, provides a broad range o benets to our clients.

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Video & Voice) into usable inormation or people to make

qualied and sae decisions.

Comms Internationals unique positioning in the Rail Communi-

cations industry comes rom our in-house Proprietary Sotware

& Hardware, Global Technology Partners combined with our

Technology Integration Expertise.

These qualities allow us to meet client expectations when deliv-

ering turnkey solutions, rom Concept through to Commission-

ing and Support.

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Comms International work with our Rail clients as a Value

Partner; assisting our clients at the earliest stage to realise their

ideas, dene the scope or technologically advanced and robust

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ance monitoring devices, both rail side and on-board to create a

composite view o railway vehicles perormance.

The red thread that runs throughout Comms Internationals Rail

Solution is the ocus on extracting relevant and usable real-time

inormation or people to make qualied decisions on.

Comms Internationals Rail Solution is structured on an open

architecture in order to extract data rom both legacy technolo-

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Comms Internationals Rail Solution usability ocus allows ou r

clients personnel to improve the Predictive maintenance, Wear

and utilization trend analysis as well as Tracking o individual

components.

Comms Internationals Rail Solution establishes the ramework

or smart communications between eld devices, oce process-

ing and the Central Train Control System as well as maintenance

resources.

The ability o our Rail Solutions to collate critical inormation is

key to lowering maintenance cost through easy identication o

where problems occur. Operators or Train Control can quickly

identiy which rail cart has a problem and even which axle are

experiencing problems. Inormation is also pushed downstream

in-real time to maintenance planners to allow the deective railcart to be cut out, or or the inormation to be used or predic-

tive maintenance purposes.

Comms International Asset Protection technologies are ocused

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Comms Internationals unique value proposition or the PortIndustry is the ability to oer Cost Eective and Dependable

Communications solutions, which seamlessly connects Ports,

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well as onshore assets ranging rom Rail networks, through to

beneciation plants and mine sites.

Over the years Comms International has been able to aggre-

gate experience on a range o projects tying together dierent

aspects o Port o perations such as Port Perimeter Security,

Container acilities, Equipment monitoring Gates & security

and the interaction between land based assets and Ship &

Oshore oil platorms.

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model or working with clients, our Communications

Engineers leverages their global experiences cou-pled with our broad base o client cases spanning 15

years to create, advice or design solutions and plans

or any stage o a client project.

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Comms International oers consultancy services

in areas such as Communications Technology audit-

ing, Site Engineering Studies, advisory and design.

Our well-trained and experienced Communications

Engineers can review your current and planned com-

munications requirements and provide recommen-

dations and solutions or independent and objective

action items.

Engaging Comms International or Consultancy

services can be done in which ever orm the cl ientwishes, ranging rom an objective sounding board

through to participating in scheduled project work

groups as an expert advisor.

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Comms Internationals experienced Communica-

tions Engineers welcomes early stage work, starting

with Conceptual designs and Site Engineering Stud-

ies to calcul ate coverage perormance, Integration

models all the way through to a nal design. All

our designs are vetted, simulated and tested in our

laboratories, as well as with our world leading Tech-

nology Partners.

As the industries we serve are extremely sophisti-cated, demanding the highest standards or saety

and operative uptime; Comms International use

the latest design tools available on the market, yield-

ing both cost eective and robust solutions.

At Comms International the highest international

Engineering Standards are adhered to meeting all

requirements or Oil/Gas processing plants, oshore

and onshore drill rigs, beneciation plants as well

as critical port and marine communications require-

ments, all inline with the international quality stand-

ards o ISO 9000.

Comms International is ocused on outcome and

saety and on being a relevant and good partner or

our clients. Comms International is able to bothprovide complete turn key solutions or any Commu-

nications challenge within the industries we serve, as

well as participate in large group projects with com-

plementing, but limited module responsibility.

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the benets to our clients are signicant ranging

rom 1 point o contact through to reducing risk as

well achieving cost savings.

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experienced Designers and Project Management

personnel, the delivery o projects on time and on

budget is saeguarded.

Our ability to understand both the customers indus-try specic requirements and match these with best

o breed technical options, directly correlates to

savings in cost and time.

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Comms International has developed over the years

a range o case studies and track record o providing

onsite, as well as osite management services or a

range o dierent Communications platorms as well

as or Technology Solutions or which our clients

choose to engage Comms International as the

Technology integrator.

MARC Contract Service Agreements or our Value

Partner clients is something we welcome and aspireor. Comms International is able to tailor a MARC

engagement to deliver the highest level o main-

tenance and repair support required or any size

operation, at any project stage and with the ability to

provide ulltime/part-time and ad-hoc onsite support

teams.

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At Comms International the number one priority is to sae-guard the Health and Saety o all people that we interact with;

be it our own employees, our clients personnel, or 3rd parties

that might become impacted by our work.

Occupational Health and Saety responsibilities are always the

oundation that we build on, cu tting no corners and always o-

cusing on always having the critical mass o competence among

our employees. It is through competence that saety and pro-

ductivity is achieved.

Comms Internationals HSE Management System adheres to the

two undamental elements o most international HSE legislation:

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environment that is sae and without risk.

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and saety o themselves and others.

At Comms International, we understand the importance o

taking care o our Environment, which is why we always strive

to make the least environmental impact on the projects we

work on.

Comms International will always try and use the most energy

eective technology options on the market or our designs, as

well as strive to use technologies with the least environmental

contaminants and the highest degree o recyclable elements.

health, saFety &enVIronment (hse)

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www.commsinternational.com

Communications International

Phone: +44 207 193 4247Fax: +44 207 117 4460

[email protected]

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