PEGAS, digital radio communication system based on TETRAPOL technology, will be the backbone of security forces communication during the NATO Summit in Prague
Prague, le 19 novembre 2002
The PEGAS radio communication system will serve as the backbone of high secured communication used by security forces during the NATO Summit that will take place in the Czech capital Prague on November 21st and 22nd. The European company EADS TELECOM is the supplier of digital technology used daily, since 1999, by thousands of Czech Police officers and other Integrated Rescue System units both in the capital and other regions in the Czech Republic.
The decision to build a Prague segment of the nationwide PEGAS network was made while planning for the International Monetary Fund & World Bank meeting in Prague at the end of September 2000. The Czech Police and other security units thus started using a means of state-of-the-art communications, which cannot be eavesdropped on. "The everyday use of more than two years by the users of the new radio communication system and the valuable experience learned from the disturbances accompanying the Prague meeting in 2000 have laid down a base for successfully coping with security challenges of the kind posed by the upcoming Summit of the top representatives of the alliance’s member states," said Philippe Chemoul, the company’s manager for the Czech Republic.
The selection of the TETRAPOL technology, on which PEGAS network is built, turned out to be the right choice already during the IMF/WB meeting. Although powerful jamming attacked police communications, the system continued to work and facilitate communications among the individual forces.
The successful handling of the communication needs of the Security Forces during Prague’s meeting of world financiers just corroborated the earlier accomplishments of the TETRAPOL technology previously used for security force communications at events that can be compared in significance and organization. Let’s just mention the 1996 G7 Summit, the 1998 Football World Championships in France, or Pope John Paul II’s visit to Rumania one year later. APEC Summit in Mexico last month was another success for the TETRAPOL technology.
During the last floods in Czech Republic, PEGAS has allowed the communication and the coordination between all Security Forces of Prague when most of others systems were down or saturated.
The PEGAS radio communication system is safeguarded against deliberate or inadvertent eavesdropping. Next to secure communication, it enables its users to send data (text, photographs, fingerprints, etc.) and to link up to phone networks, including the mobile ones. The necessity to equip the police forces with such advanced communication tools was confirmed, for example, in 1999 during the IMF meeting in Seattle, WA in the USA, when the opponents of globalization regularly eavesdropped on calls made by the security forces, literally paralyzing their activity.
The PEGAS network is being set up on the basis of a 1999 agreement between the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic and EADS TELECOM (formerly MATRA NORTEL COMMUNICATIONS). The new radio communication system to cover all the regions of the Czech Republic is scheduled for completion in 2003. When completed, the system will facilitate communications and will be reinforced to others units in the Integrated Rescue System, such as fire brigades or medical emergency services.
The TETRAPOL technology is the only radio communication solution deployed at great scale that has proven to be reliable and operatively efficient at events of paramount importance that require HIGH SECURITY. At present, 64 networks are deployed or under construction in 30 countries worldwide, using a technology based on the TETRAPOL standard, approved by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and the Police Cooperation Group (formerly the Schengen Group). Many of these networks cover entire nations giving full satisfaction to their users: RUBIS (Gendarmerie Nationale) and ACROPOL (Police Nationale) in France, SIRDEE in Spain, Police Forces in Singapore, POLYCOM in Switzerland, SITNO in Slovakia, PHOENIX in Romania and IRIS in Mexico.
Presently, total TETRAPOL network coverage is over 1.4 million square kilometers – an area three times larger than France – serving some 420,000 users. Once the deployment operations now underway are complete, TETRAPOL will serve a million users with coverage of 4 million square kilometers.
About EADS TELECOM
EADS TELECOM is the global Center of Excellence for telecommunications of the EADS Group, the leading Aeronautics, Space and Defence Company in Europe and second world-wide.
EADS TELECOM is a supplier of turnkey telecommunications networks based on civil technologies for the Security, Defence and civil markets with a complete range of solutions "Connexity", whose common denominator is security.
With a local presence in 13 countries, EADS TELECOM has 3500 employees in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
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