Professional Mobile Radio Networks: We Are Your Partner
Commercial mobile radio networks such as GSM and UMTS are conquering the world. Much of the world’s population today owns mobile radio devices that transmit not only voice but also text and images.
With these public mobile networks the main concern is to maximize the number of subscribers and provide profitable services. Public mobile radio, however, rarely addresses performance characteristics for “minorities”.
This leaves little room for professional mobile radio (PMR). Progress appears to be at a standstill. There are two reasons for this. Firstly: The demand for such devices is much lower than with public networks – consequently it is almost impossible to finance the enormous development effort for additional features. Secondly: The necessary frequencies are missing because the demand that the market creates is too low.
Not a very satisfying solution, because after all, many of the additional features provided by commercial mobile radios and networks are more of a gimmick for professional users than useful services. This is where Siemens IT Solutions and Services comes in: The company knows how to set up and run non-commercial mobile radio networks. Professional organizations have very concrete requirements for a mobile radio network; requirements that public networks can rarely meet. Typical essential performance characteristics for such users are:
- High availability with fallback levels
- High reliability – even in case of extraordinary events
- Direct and group communication
- Priority and emergency calls
- Radio control station provides communication control
- Connections are established quickly
- Direct communication between terminals without any radio infrastructure
- Continuous end-to-end encryption for security organizations
- Independent communication and control of different organizations over
the same network. - Quick virtual interconnection of communications between different
groups or security organizations in case of emergency





