Malaysian company Sapura Secured Technologies has engaged Teltronic to supply a wide-area TETRA network which will provide coverage to the Kuala Lumpur region and other territories across Malaysia.

The TETRA network, which will be the largest outside Europe, will include 112 site base stations and two redundant switching control nodes. In addition, there will be three inter-system nodes to provide communications with the existing nationwide TETRA network managed by Sapura. The project, which incorporates the strictest mission-critical requirements and the highest possible service availability, is expected to be completed by the end of 2012.

Sapura and Teltronic have also agreed to collaborate in specialized mission-critical LTE solutions via a long-term development programme. The 3GPP LTE standard is emerging as their preferred technology for future, high-speed mobile broadband services.

“With this collaboration, the Malaysian TETRA network will be the first nationwide network to seamlessly integrate multi-vendor platforms”, said Mohd Zarif Hashim, chief executive of Sapura Secured Technologies. “The resulting technology from the joint development with Teltronic can be utilized by other TETRA network operators around the world.”

• In South America, Teltronic has been chosen to provide a TETRA radio communications system for an extension to the Lima Metro.