ales announces service entry of TETRA network in Kazakhstan

22 May 2013

Critical Communications World Congress Paris, France Thales with the key industrial partner Company AGAT LLP (Kazakhstan) announces the entry into service of one of Central Asias largest TETRA* radio networks with the Republic of Kazakhstan security forces. Thales, with AGAT, deployed the network across the entire country for the Kazakhstan Ministry of the Interior.

Thaless secure solution provides nationwide mobile voice and data services, enabling the ministry and its various agencies to better serve the community and improve security for citizens. In addition, the Thales network architecture ensures a high level of resilience and availability to support the countrys security forces in their missions, even in the event of a major incident or crisis.

Thales has delivered and commissioned a total of 84 radio relay sites, and has also deployed supervision stations in 16 cities around Kazakhstan to monitor and locate mobile equipment.

The solution we have deployed meets all our customer's requirements, particularly the ability of each site to provide a complete operational service even when disconnected from the core network, says Jean-Michel Lagarde, Deputy SVP in charge of Secure Communications and Information Systems activities. Our customer has commended us for the level of commitment of the Thales teams during deployment and commissioning and into the support phase.

[if !supportFootnotes]*Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) (formerly known as Trans-European Trunked Radio) is a professional mobile radio and two-way transceiver specification. TETRA was specifically designed for use by government agencies, emergency services, (police forces, fire departments, ambulance) for public safety networks, rail transportation staff for train radios, transport services and the military.

Notes to editors

Thales and professional mobile radio

In PMR (professional mobile radio), Thales offers innovative capabilities for small- and large-scale networks, providing high-performance, reliable and flexible solutions to secure flows of critical information. Based on a distributed architecture, these solutions incorporate the first high-data-rate applications in the marketplace and can be tailored to the voice, text and data requirements of specific groups of professional users. As one of the pioneers of LTE solutions, Thales has developed a secure, resilient solution for mission-critical applications.

Some 30 countries to date have chosen Thales PMR solutions for public safety, transportation, airport security and applications in industry and the oil and gas sector.

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