50 ways TETRA will provide the long-term support you need

There’s a rumour spreading around the world that LTE is ready to replace TETRA as king of mission-critical communication.

However, this is not a rumour- it’s a myth. TETRA is still the right investment for any organization looking for a secure, mission-critical communication system. What’s more, the buyer can smoothly complement the system with a completely new generation of solutions (LTE). TETRA really is the technology of choice far into the future.

These are 50 reasons why TETRA will continue far into the future

5You can trust that TETRA technology will be further

developed and supported for a long time. For example, the big public safety networks in Norway and Germany have recently been rolled out.

2TETRA is a genuine multi- vendor market

or environment, producing competition that benefits buyers.

1Comple-menting TETRA with broadband is made easy

with special solutions. 3It would take days to list all the func-tional

features and possibilities of TETRA. Compare this to the very basic PTT over LTE apps available today - these features could be listed in one minute.

4 The TETRA market has a

well-established ecosystem, making a wide variety of solutions available.

9If you want a service dedicated for you – a network of

your own – choose TETRA for its abundance of tried and tested features.

6TETRA is the only practical choice if you need to handle

a worst-case scenario, where a serious incidents leads to hundreds or even thousands of radio users communicating in a very small area.

8When you have only a narrow frequency band available, you can achieve high capacity for voice communications. For example, sharing information with thousands of radio users can be done in a very capacity efficient way.

7You can use TETRA radios even while wear-ing gloves.

Using normal smart devices with gloves is not convenient and is often impossible.

10 Built-in privacy in TETRA brings many benefits. For example, the Virtual Private Network concept means that an

organisation can experience the network just as if they had a network of their own. The shared network lets private organisations communicate together easily, while also maintaining control.

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It’s trusted technology – verified to remain stable.

12 TETRA networks have been

proven to provide uninterrupted service, even in exceptional situations when commercial networks have failed to do so.

11With a critical situation in progress, being able to talk with your team is the most important thing in the world. No other solution can guaran-tee this better for professional organizations than TETRA.

13The palette of functionalities is still developing. For example, national authority networks are becoming linked. This allows organizations to communicate and better cooperate not only within one country, but across the national border as well.

15TETRA is also available as an off-the-shelf solution offering quick and easy set-ups for business-critical organisa-

tions – for example, metro companies or airports.

19 TETRA is excellent for sending short text messages to groups or teams very quickly. These messages are an important asset for public safety users - the Finnish VIRVE network alone delivers 7,5 million short messages every single day.

18Setting up a TETRA group

call is unbeatably fast and reliable. It is faster than the blink of an eye - less than 0.3 seconds.

17TETRA offers versatile priorities, ensuring the right people can always communicate when they need to. For example, an emergency call has the highest priority – it will not go unheeded.

20Many useful applications have been developed and are tried and tested in use. For example, one application makes it quick and easy to set up communication groups for a particular flight number at an airport.

16There is no better solution available for mission-critical voice communication.

22 You can get a high-per-forming,

feature-rich system even for a smaller setup, with an agreeable price tag.

23TETRA technol-ogy has been

proven in practice – it works. New technol-ogies may suffer from “beginner’s disease”.

21 TETRA users are satis-fied with their reliable service. In fact, most are more than satisfied – they consider the radio as an indispensable tool. It is therefore important to ensure the continuity of this service.

24 Need your com-muni-

cations to stay secret? Choose from the many encryption options that TETRA offers.

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Do you expect a bright future with growing operations? Start with a smaller setup. The set of features is equivalent to a bigger system, and expanding your system is straight-forward.

27Want to be certain that your chosen technology works? Go with TETRA. It is proven in practice with a boatload of references. You don’t have to think twice about whether or not it will work.

30What is confidential and private, stays that way. TETRA encryption prevents eaves-

dropping of traffic. And end-to-end encryption also keeps the signaling encrypted all the way from one end of the communication to the other.

28 New user organi-sations

are adopting TETRA all the time. For a network operator, this opens new opportunities for revenue streams.

26Do you already own a TETRA system? Take advantage of the investment that you have already made and modernize as needed. You will get completely

new options at a fraction of the capital expenditure.

29There are special, handy devices developed to work over TETRA. For example, the special, active TETRA pager called P8GR. Instead of being a dumb beeper, it works as a two-way device. Another is the small and slim, yet very robust, TH1n handheld radio.

34Full-IP is a killer solution. A buyer can use an existing IP backbone for TETRA transmis-sion, removing the need to set up a separate system.

31When commercial networks become heavily congested during major incidents or even during large events, the private TETRA system stays up and running, providing service to those who need it.

33There are attractive system options for a business critical buyer. Claricor Cell, for example, is easy to set up and bring into operation in 10 minutes. It can use power from an aggregate, solar panels, the battery of a vehicle, power grid, or backup batteries, and it will deliver mission-critical quality.

32 TETRA’s special features

and functions have brought improved efficiency to user organisations, which in turn cuts costs.

35Running the TETRA system on an IP Backbone can save the operator serious

money, as the cost of transmission is lower.

39Look at radio systems of equivalent price range and you’ll see that a TETRA system can deliver the widest variety and selection of features for professionals. And they’re available today.

38Take advantage of robust radio terminals, which can take years of heavy use and remain operational. Compared to so-called ruggedized mobile phones, these are on an entirely different level.37

New EU cyber security regulations require providers of critical infrastructure to accept more responsibility and liability. TETRA solutions are already secure

by design, not as an afterthought.

40 The latest TETRA solutions

can be extremely cost-effective, keeping operational expenses to the minimum.

36 Already made investments in TETRA systems?. Do not waste money – instead, put a little more into mod-

ernizing the system and you can extend its lifetime significantly. You continue to enjoy the world’s best mission-critical voice services, and can complement the network with secure or even commercial broadband.

42Interfaces allow the system to be inte-grated with other systems in a wide range of simple but effective ways. Examples include dispatching systems and command and control systems. All of these have been achieved and proven.

45TETRA is in the thoroughly proven stage of its lifecycle. It’s in its prime and there is an amazing offering of network, radio terminal and application solutions.

43TETRA systems are extremely durable and reliable, even when traffic is heavy during special incidents or major events. Commercial mobile networks congested or crashed? 10,000 public safety profes-sionals from 50 different organizations in a small area? TETRA networks go on serving up the goods.

41TETRA products and solu-tions are modern, even though the standard itself is now two decades old. The solutions based on the standard have moved with

the times and keep the customer at the leading edge of the evolution in mission-critical communication evolution.

44There are always new ways being devel-oped to apply TETRA communications in your operational models and daily routines.

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You can integrate broadband services into your TETRA system. This way, you can get new multimedia services and professional apps into use sooner and more securely.

49 Choose TETRA systems

with a smooth evolution path into the future, via hybrid networks, to mission-critical broadband.

47When you invest in a TETRA network, you are not ruling out the adoption of broadband

solutions. On the contrary, there are great possibilities for using TETRA and LTE together.

48 Secure MVNO solutions

can be integrated into the TETRA network. Here, the TETRA operator uses a commercial network to provide broadband to its own users. Using Tactilon Suite, the oper-ator can also have the subscribers, equipment and SIM cards within one system, achieving full control of their own assets and using VPN tunnels for security,

50There are completely new horizons opening up. For example, the Tactilon Agnet

application allows TETRA groups to be used on stan-dard smartphones.

The thing is,

there is not yet a broadband technology that on its own can give public safety and other professional users what they need.

If you want to find the one TETRA vendor which can deliver on all of these 50 reasons, you have only one viable choice.

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With a critical situation in

progress, being able to talk with your team is the most important thing in the world. No other solution can guarantee this better than TETRA.

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