Alcatel-Lucent and PowerTrunk Complete TETRA/LMR Trial in United States with NJ TRANSIT

Alcatel-Lucent and PowerTrunk Inc. have successfully completed a trial of a TETRA/LMR network with NJ TRANSIT in Newark, New Jersey. This is the first TETRA trial in the United States and demonstrates the multiple features and functionality of TETRA innovation, as so then as the strength of specialized TETRA-enabled applications.

Digital trunked mobile radio standard developed

TETRA is a digital trunked mobile radio standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute widely deployed by public-safety agencies, utilities and transportation companies outside North America with 2,000 contracts in place in more than 100 countries to date.

The trial TETRA/LMR network enabled NJ TRANSIT buses to communicate, using voice and data, with operations personnel. The current network limits available data bandwidth and is not spectrally efficient. The trial TETRA network provided higher data bandwidth and 6.25 KHz voice equivalency that will meet future FCC narrow-banding requirements.

"The existing NJ TRANSIT communications backbone enabled us to efficiently and smoothly reconfigure the network to support TETRA," said Nicola Guidara, Director of Transportation Market Segment for Alcatel-Lucent's Americas Region. "Thanks to our close collaboration with PowerTrunk, at the same time were able to provide NJ TRANSIT with an advanced TETRA network."

The primary network integrator for the trial

Alcatel-Lucent served as the primary network integrator for the trial. PowerTrunk-T provided base stations, mobiles, hand portables, a line dispatcher and a switch to integrate a legacy VHF system. Should the contingency arise, the network is integrated to an existing CAD system and a PowerTrunk PABX/PSTN gateway allows full duplex cellular-like communications between cell phones and PowerTrunk radios.

PowerTrunk Inc. is the subsidiary of Teltronic® S.A.U. responsible for business development, distribution and customer support for Teltronic land mobile radio projects in North America. PowerTrunk is headquartered in New York City. With 35 years' experience designing, manufacturing, implementing and supporting digital and analog land mobile radio turnkey projects, Teltronic S.A.U. has more than 300 systems installed in 50 countries. Teltronic's LMR solutions are widely deployed in the public safety, oil and gas, transportation and utilities industries. LMR equipment includes conventional and trunked infrastructure systems, mobiles, hand portables and dispatching consoles for TETRA, P25, WiMAX/LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) and MPT-1327 technologies. Headquartered in Spain, Teltronic S.A.U. has direct commercial presence in over 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Latin America and the United States. For more information, go to www.powertrunk.com.

The long-trusted partner of service providers

The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of technology and research in communications research.

With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The Company achieved earnings of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.