In Germany, Cassidian – the new name of EADS Defence & Security – has been commissioned by Berlin’s IT service centre to link the State of Berlin’s 28 control centres to the national public safety digital radio network (BDBOS).

The link, via two data concentrators, will make the control stations’ access to the TETRA digital radio network as cost-effective and manufacturer-independent as possible. Berlin is the first federal state to commission such a system.

A special feature will be high availability: should one of the concentrators fail, the linked-up control stations and TETRA groups will be automatically re-routed via a second location to ensure almost uninterrupted operation.

Cassidian is also supplying a powerful network management system which provides a full overview of the operational status of all system components of the concentrator system.