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Terrestrial Trunked Radio For Professional Cellular Systems
Terrestrial Trunked Radio For Professional Cellular Systems
Terrestrial Trunked Radio For Professional Cellular Systems
TETRA, the European standard for The European Institute for Telecommu- ports the packet oriented transmission
Trunked Radio Systems, is primarily nications Standards (ETSI) has devel- of data via the radio channel (TETRA
intended for users in the public secu- oped this standard in co-operation with PDO = “Packet Data Optimized”).
rity sphere, transport, utilities and op- the leading manufacturers, system Thus the system platform is able to
erators of public Trunked Radio net- operators and users. combine the two radio services, mobile
works. TETRA has been conceived for high data transmission and paging, which
As fully digital radio system, TETRA is frequency economy, reliable voice and were up to now only offered by sepa-
hallmarked by improved transmission data transmission and versatile oper- rate infrastructures. This improves the
quality and higher frequency economy. ating features. In addition to the cen- flexibility and economic viability of the
The comprehensive functionality addi- tral standard for speech and data ystem for the network operator, service
tionally ensures high flexibility in pro- (TETRA “Voice and Data”) there is also providers, and not least for the end
fessional mobile communications. a special variant which optimally sup- user.
New Features
The proven advantages of analogue gether with a considerable improve- quencies, in synchronism with the al-
Trunked Radio Systems + fast call set- ment in speech transmission quality. located time slots. In this way complex
up (“Push-to-talk”-mode), group ori- Compared to GSM networks, which filter systems, which would be neces-
ented communication and the utilisation currently offer 8 communication chan- sary for simultaneous transmission and
of control stations + have been ex- nels in 200 kHz channel spacing TETRA- reception, can be avoided.
tended through the addition of further systems offer a quadrupling of the fre-
features, like encryption, “Late Entry“, quency utilisation. TETRA Packet Data Optimized
economic duplex option, etc. The transmission rate on the TETRA TETRA allows the adjustment of the
Digitisation reduces the costs for opera- carrier frequencies is 36kBit/s. In ad- transmission rate and the reliability
tors and users, and offers access to the dition to the message content to be functions to the specific application. The
modern telecommunications world transmitted the data includes the pro- data rate can be varied between 2.4
(ISDN, DECT, GSM), with all the per- tocol-information and codes necessary kBit/s, for extremely high security re-
formance features of a state-of-the-art for the securing of the radio link be- quirements, using one time slot, and
private exchange, for example caller tween subscriber radio and radio base 28.8kBit/s if the data protection pro-
identification, call diversion, short-di- station. The maximum user data rate tocol is disabled, and four time slots are
aling, call waiting and call-holding. per communication channel is 7.2kBit/ used.
s (per time slot). The TETRA CODEC
TDMA Access Method digitises and compresses the speech so Direct-Mode
TETRA is defined as a time multiplexed that a continuous two-way conversation Important measures for increasing the
system (TDMA = “Time Division Mul- is possible, using two corresponding flexibility for TETRA users are embed-
tiple Access”) with four independent time slots. The CODEC output delivers ded in the Direct Mode. The Direct
transmission channels per carrier. The 4.8kBit/s, which is transmitted within in Mode enables communication between
spacing between the individual carri- a time slot of 7.2kBit, including the subscriber radios independent of the
ers is 25kHz. This provides, in compari- securing code. radio-network. Thus TETRA subscriber
son to analogue Trunked Radio System, The duplex offset is 10 MHz in “Time radios can be used as ”walkie-talkies”
which operate with 12.5 kHz spacing Division Duplex” mode. This means within and without the network. It is also
according to the MPT standard, a dou- that the user terminal constantly switches possible to operate a subscriber radio
bling of the frequency utilisation to- between the transmit and receive fre- as a repeater for another radio, in
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D P
2 TETRA
ISDN
PABX
LAN PDN PSTN
order to temporarily improve, or ex- DECT
TETRA 3
TETRA Services
Single call
Group call
Speech Transmission (encrypted)
Group call with acknowledgment
Broadcast call
Packet switching
Area selection The geographic operating area can be defined for each subscriber
Enables to transfer the responsibility for the call to another subscriber, without
Transfer of group responsibility
interruption