TETRA Services & Facilities

Risto Toikkanen

Vice chairman, TETRA Association

TETRA Experience, Warsaw June 2006

05.06.2006

Contents

The package vs user needs

Basic PMR voice services

Basic mobile telephony

Advanced group voice

Advanced mobile telephony

A quick look at data

Other interesting facilities

Making the difference

Shared networks

Conclusions

Data services and security are discussed in other presentations

Mission critical needsGuaranteed service - under normal conditions

- during incidents

- planned capacity for emergency handling

- semi-duplex (only one channel per group per site)

Fast group communications

- x00 ms set-up time

- good dispatching

- dynamic group management

Specific functionality - emergency calls (pre-emptive)

- security

- monitoring, status messages

Unique Powerful Package

Four in One:– Group voice & dispatch– Mobile telephony– Messaging– IP data

Uncompromised securityCapacity for nationwide shared networks

TETRA standard Release 2 will strengthen the package with High Speed Data + few other functions

OPEN HERE

Basic PMR Voice Services (and more)

Excellent voice quality of ACELP codec

Group calls– Wide area groups up to nationwide– Fast call set-up– Virtually unlimited number of talkgroups– Economic use of resources

Individual call (semi-duplex)– Direct call i.e. press and talk– Hook call i.e. answer when it rings

Mobility management and fast cell reselection

Basic Mobile Telephony

Individual call (full duplex)– Radio to radio– PSTN/PABX/ISDN

connectivity

Mobility management and fast cell reselection

Before TETRA this was not self-evident

Advanced PMR Voice Services

Pre-emptive Priority Call (PPC, emergency call)

Call queuing when resources busy

Priority Call up to 16 priority levels (PC & PPC)

Late Entry (LE)

Ambience Listening (AL)

Call Authorised by Dispatcher (CAD)

Discreet Listening (DL, monitoring of calls)

Dynamic Group Number Assignment (DGNA)

Talking Party Identification (TPI)

Advanced Mobile Telephony Services

MS-ISDN numbering to address the whole world

Short numbering schemes

Modern PABX facilities such as– Calling party identification– Barring of calls (incoming & outgoing)

– Call forwarding– Call Waiting

Billing and Customer Care systems/interfaces

Text messaging

Data Communication ServicesStatus service

– efficient, real time

– group and individual addresses

Short Data Service, SDS– text messaging

– GPS position data

– group and individual addresses

IP packet data• file and image transfers

• database access

• reporting

• WAP, web browsing

Circuit switched data

High speed data:TETRA Enhanced Data Service TEDScomes in Release 2

End-to-end applications for end-user needs

TETRA has created new type of application supplyManufacturers’ development partnership

programmes gather even hundreds of software houses

A. Horizontal applications common with commercial mobile data business– Positioning, databases, email etc high volume

applications

B. Very specialised fit-to-purpose segment specific applications– Command & control, telemedicine, telemetry, …

Other Services & FacilitiesTransmitter Inhibit

Direct Mode operation (DMO)– Traditional– Gateway– Repeater

Air-Ground-Air (was part of Release 2)

Location Information Protocol (LIP) (was part of Release 2)

Fall-back operation of Base Stations

Network Interfaces for Telephony, Data, Internet,… Command & Control Systems, Network Management, etc.

Full security (discussed elsewhere)

Versus Cellular•Fast response group calls•Mission critical dispatching•Availability for mission critical

– Daily use– Under emergencies– Capacity of semi-duplex– DMO, BS fall-back

•Full security– (mutual) authentication– Air & end-to-end encrypt– Disabling of radios

•Features: PPC, LE, Al, DGNA

Versus other PMR•Full duplex•Cell handovers•TDMA capacity•Spectrum efficiency•Voice + data truly in use•Multi-vendor market•Cost benefits•Fast innovations

– Compare the handsets for GPS, color display, WEB, WAP, JAVA, …

Key differentiators of TETRA vs others

Sharing a network

Now common practice with TETRA in Public Safety– Requires VPN and controlled privacy– Services and parameters per user

organisation– Fleet & service management per user

organisation

Leads to big savings in CAPEX & OPEXLeads to nationwide high-capacity

networks– TETRA has shown that it can perform

TETRA OK for mission critical?Guaranteed service - under normal conditions

- during incidents

- planned capacity for emergency handling

- semi-duplex (only one channel per group per site)

Fast group communications

- x00 ms set-up time

- good dispatching

- dynamic group management

Specific functionality - emergency calls (pre-emptive)

- security

- monitoring, status messages

Conclusions

TETRA is the open global standard for digital professional radio communications– mission critical voice and group dispatch– mobile telephony– advanced data transfer and applications

Meets the mission critical user needs

Real and open multi-vendor supply

Very competitive functionality compared to any other technology

TETRA is secure and future-proof choice of global PMR communityTETRA is secure and future-proof choice of global PMR community

Dziekuje bardzo!

Questions?