Teltronic to provide comms at Rio Olympic Games

Teltronic has been chosen by Brazilian authorities to provide communications for the upcoming Summer Olympics and Paralympics, Rio 2016, to take place in Río de Janeiro this August and September.

The €10 million contract will cover four venues, two airports and several key transport routes in the Olympic area.

The agreement with Teltronic, part of the Sepura Group, will see an extension to the traffic capabilities of the existing Teltronic network currently used by the Rio police, as well as the installation of further Nebula base stations to provide additional coverage for the State Police and Emergency Services, and the Olympics organisation workforce.

The existing network was originally provided by Teltronic for the Pan American Games in 2007 and, after some upgrades, is now supporting over 100 dispatch operators and more than 18,000 radios.

This upgrade for the Olympics will feature two extra TETRA carriers for each site, to update the capacity of the existing network; base stations with up to 12 TETRA transceivers to support high traffic loads throughout the event; a CeCoCo Control Centre, to accommodate a further 50 dispatch operators; an additional 6000 terminals usingTeltronic’s Synchronous Data Manager application to pare down the GPS refresh time in AVL applications; and 24/7 maintenance and operational support during the games.

“We have a strong background in events of this scale, having supported communications for the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Pan-American Games — both huge events in the sporting calendar of Brazil and, indeed, the world. We are delighted that Rio de Janeiro’s public safety agencies have, once again, placed their trust in us,” said Paulo Ferrao, the Sepura Group’s sales director for Brazil.

Superintendent of Critical Communications at the Security Secretariat of the State Colonel Alexandre Corval said Teltronic has been a trustworthy partner to its public safety agencies for over 10 years.

“Once again, they have exceeded our expectations in terms of technical development, quality of the deployment and, above all, their dedication to customer service: throughout the project, they have paid close attention to our technical and operational requirements,” said Corval.

“We are confident that this extension to the existing Teltronic TETRA system will optimise our mission-critical communications, enhancing the security of both visitors and employees throughout Rio 2016.”

Images courtesy of the Sepura Group.

Originally published here.