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# Willkommen in München Willkommen in München und willkommen zum TETRA World Congress 2009. Es ist eine unglaubliche ErmuPhil Godfrey tigung, für uns von Chairman der TETRA Associa- TETRA Association tion und dem professionellen Kommunikationsmarkt, dass Sie trotz dieser schwierigen Zeiten hier so zahlreich erschienen sind. Bitte nutzen Sie diese hochinteressante Woche, um Gleichgesinnte aus der TETRA Gemeinschaft zu treffen, um Wissen und Ideen auszutauschen, zu debattieren und gemeinsam die Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu adressieren. Im Namen der TETRA Association wünsche ich Ihnen einen erfolgreichen Kongress. Wir hoffen, mit den meisten von Ihnen während der nächsten Tage persönlich sprechen zu können, und Ihre Ansichten über die Zukunft der einsatzkritischen Kommunikationen für professionelle Nutzer zu hören. Kommen Sie uns doch auf unseren Messestand G102 besuchen. Wir freuen uns auf Sie.
Wednesday May 27 ’09
The State of Bavaria selects Sepura Sepura has secured the contract to supply digital TETRA radios to the State of Bavaria. Bavaria is the fourth German federal state to select Sepura radios within the roll out of the German TETRA BOS-net framework. This contract was won together with Selectric, Sepura's partner in Germany, a partnership that has already secured BOS-net contracts in the federal states of Sachsen-Anhalt, Niedersachsen and Bremen.
Sepura will supply more than 7800 radios to the police, fire brigades, and rescue organisations operating in the municipality of Munich and surrounding area. Bavarian public safety organisations will use Sepura's STP8000 hand-portables and SRG3500 gateways. Bavaria is the largest of the sixteen German states, and has over 60,000 public safety radio users and approximately 400,000 potential users. It is one
of the Federal Republic's earliest adopters of digital communication for its public safety organisations. Sepura is on Stand G401.
Welcome to Munich Welcome to Munich, and welcome to the 2009 TETRA World Congress. It is a tremendous encouragement, both to the professional communications market and to the TETRA Association, that so many of you are here to participate in this year’s Congress during such a difficult global economic climate. Please do take advantage this week of unparalleled opportunities to meet with colleagues from the user community and industry to share knowledge and ideas, to debate issues and address the challenges facing us all. On behalf of the TETRA Association, I wish you a successful Congress. We hope to meet as many people as possible during the Congress, and to hear your views on the future of critical communications for professional users. Come and visit us on the TETRA Association Stand G102 – we look forward to meeting with you.
Users reveal future communications needs TETRA will continue to address strong demand for fast, resilient communication. That is the headline result from research conducted by IDC for Motorola across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The ‘Future Tech’ research asked nearly 200 organisations – public safety agencies and major industrial users – about their future communications systems requirements. The view of 82 per cent of respondents was for fast, resilient communications, which improve the safety of users, extend the range of applications available in the field and simplify ease of use. These requirements
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underline the ongoing importance of TETRA technology. The in-depth study canvassed the opinions of executives with a role in purchasing decisions across eight countries in EMEA from public safety, oil and gas and transport sectors. As well as demand for faster and more resilient communication networks, organisations, as reported by 79 per cent of respondents, are keen to see improvements to technology which improves existing systems. “Organisations are focused on optimising their existing communications systems to support accelerated data speeds and
advanced applications,” said Pim Bilderbeek, VP European Telecoms Consulting, IDC. The TETRA industry is enhancing network performance with the imminent availability of TETRA 2 technology, expanding the array of services available to users. TETRA Release 2 includes TETRA Enhanced Data Services (TEDS) for higher data rates, a technology which is already being deployed in Norway’s nationwide TETRA system, with more networks planning to invest in the technology over the next two years. Visit Motorola on Stand D301 to find out more.
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