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Introduction to Rohill

■ 40 years leading experience in business and mission critical communications

■ Supplier of proven solutions for critical communications

■ Excellence in customer satisfaction

■ Key strengths include flexibility and innovation

■ Full technology ownership

■ Supportive of open standards and solutions

■ Dedicated partnership with OEM partners, system integrators and distributors


Rohill Partners

■ Some of our international operating partners


References - STA, Andorra

■ Nationwide TETRA network run by Andorra’s incumbent telco STA

■ Application

– Government services, including Public Safety

■ Benefits

– Excellent country-wide coverage, including Air-to-Ground communications

– Improved cooperation between public safety agencies

– Stricht separation of end-user groups where necessary

– Future proof IP based platform


References - Seville SECORA, Spain

■ Multi-agency radio network for the municipality of Seville

■ Application

– City police, Fire brigade, Civil defence

■ Benefits

– Much increased capacity for voice and data communication

– Improved coverage in comparison with analog radio system

– Far lower operating cost


References - Uruguay Public Safety

■ TETRA network for the city of Montevideo, Uruguay

■ Application

– Public safety agencies within the city of Montevideo

■ Benefits

– Much improved coverage compared to the analog radio network

– Better operation efficiency and security due to advanced control room soutions, location services and encryption (both Class 3 and End-to-End Encryption)

– Supports the open IT initiative of the Uruguay government


Features for Public Safety

■ Specific features for Public Safety

– Powerful call pre-emption capabilities

– Overrule talking parties from dispatcher

– Group Patch and Multicast

– High grade authentication & encryption features

– High capacity for location services

– Most complete voice & data logging functionality

■ Powerful open API

– Supports application development for improved workforce efficiency


Choice of TETRA terminals

■ Rohill is committed to multi-vendor terminal compatibility

■ TETRA terminal features relevant for Public Safety

– Voice capabilities

– SDS & status

– Single & Multi Slot Packet Data

– Built-in GPS

– Platform for JAVA applications

– Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

– Radio User Assignment (RUA)

– Air Interface Encryption

– End to End Encryption

– Ambience Listening


Rohill Solutions

■ Rohill offers

– TetraNode softswitch

– TetraNode base stations

– Network management solutions

– Dispatch solutions

– Gateways to telephony, IP and legacy radio

– 3rd line services

■ Rohill’s partners add

– Supply and installation of TETRA terminals

– System integration and applications

– Civil works, backhaul, antennas

– 1st and 2nd line services

■ Together, we deliver best-of-class solutions!


TetraNode Scalability

■ Scalability – providing best CAPEX yet allow growth in future

– Capacity: networks from single-site to country wide

– Performance: up to millions of calls per day

– Functionality: invest in necessary features only

Ultra Lite Industrial High End


TetraNode Reliability and Availability

■ High inherent reliability

– Softswitch architecture means ultimate simplicity

– Minimum amount of hardware, thus less chance for failures

■ … and redundancy …

– Distributed databases for high resilience

– All services are available redundant

– Geographic redundancy with no-single-point-of-failure

– IP/MPLS based switchover of < 50 ms

■ … results in ultimate availability!

– Exceeding five-times-nine availability

BS1

TNX Main

BS3

BS2

BS4

BS6

BS7

TNX Standby

BS5


Solutions for Network Management

■ Comprehensive solutions covering all FCAPS aspects

– Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security

■ Provided by

– Network Management Station

– NodeView

– CoverageGuard

– CoveragePlot

■ External interfaces

– Call Detail Records

– Open interfaces for 3rd party Operation Support Systems (SNMP, HTTP, XML)


Solutions for Dispatch

■ Scalable dispatch solutions for monitoring up to 120 communication groups per dispatch position

■ Powerful features for mission- critical communications

– Call and talking party pre-emption

– Discreet and Ambience listening

■ Secure multi-agency operation (VPN, security groups)

■ Pure IP based network architecture

■ Multi-language support, including far-east, Arabic and Cyrillic languages


Solutions for Voice & Data Logging

■ Voice-data Logging System

– Client-Server architecture

– Records native ACELP voice: excellent voice quality!

– TETRA text, status messages and GPS locations are logged as well!

– Precise time stamps

■ Provides the end-user with powerful functionality

– Event reconstruction

– Extensive search and filter capabilities

– Backup and restore of the voice-data logging database


Rohill Application Partners: Kolibri

■ Line & Radio connected Dispatch Workstation

– Group oriented dispatch

• Ability to monitor selected groups per radio

– Automatic Vehicle & Person Location

• Locate officers near an incident

• Call radios from the map view

– Line & Radio interconnection

• Line connection for full functionality and high capacity

• Radio connection for backup and fast deployable operations


Rohill Application Partners: Portalify

■ Portalify DMS

– Data Messaging Server

• SDS ⇔ SMS

• SDS ⇔ e-mail

• Push text andpictures

– Instant Messaging

– Queries to legacy databases

• Using terminal emulation

– User Authentication

– Instant Alert

– Instant Photo

– Location based services


Rohill Application Partners: PMR Products

■ PMR Products SafetyNet

– Developed for the UK Prisons Services

■ Functional overview

– Group oriented dispatch from multiple dispatch workstations

– Management of status information

– Integration with external databases

– PABX call handling

– Lone worker functions

– Command and control of resources

– TetraNode user management

– Audio processing, storage playback and announcements


Integration opportunities with ODINI

■ Radio system interconnection

– Tactical patch

– Expand coverage

– Migration to other network

■ Integration of Mobile IP

– TETRA functionality over Mobile IP (WiFi, 3G, LTE, WiMAX)

– Multiple bearer service for IP data

■ ODINI ecosystem

– Application development

– Dispatch, Voice-data logging, Telephony gateways


Integration opportunities with ODINI

Managed

IP backbone

Telephony gateway

System Gateway

Dispatch - Local

Voice-Data Logging

3G / LTE / WiFi / WiMAX

3rd Party Radio networks

Radio network

Smartphone client

Telephony networks

Radio Gateway

SATCOM

Dispatch - Remote


Summary of Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

Softswitch architecture Lowest CAPEX, IMPEX and CAPEX in the industry

Support of open IP standards Easy to integrate with existing IP backhaul networks

High percentage COTS technology No component obsolescense, no vendor lock-in

Excellent redundancy features High network availability

Comprehensive range of voice & data capabilities

More functionality for operation and applications

Best-of-class RF and switching performance

More coverage with fewer sites, higher capacity and better call setup performance

Excellent scalability Supports expansion to country-wide coverage

Highly power efficient Lower CAPEX, environment-friendly

Full infrastructure portfolio No dependancy on third party suppliers

Roadmap to Mobile Broadband Future proof solution

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