TETRA Services

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TETRA Services Facilities

• Risto Toikkanen
• Vice chairman, TETRA Association
• TETRA Experience, Warsaw June 2006

05.06.2006
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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
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Mission critical needs

• 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

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Unique Powerful Package

• Four in One
• Group voice dispatch
• Mobile telephony
• Messaging
• IP data
• Uncompromised security
• Capacity for nationwide shared networks
• TETRA standard Release 2 will strengthen the
  package with High Speed Data few other
  functions

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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Data Communication Services

• Status 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
TEDS comes in Release 2
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End-to-end applications for end-user needs

• TETRA has created new type of application supply
• Manufacturers 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,

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Other Services Facilities

• Transmitter 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)

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Key differentiators of TETRA vs others

• 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,

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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 OPEX
• Leads to nationwide high-capacity networks
• TETRA has shown that it can perform

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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

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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 community
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