Thales with the key industrial partner “Company AGAT LLP” (Kazakhstan) announced the entry into service of one of Central Asia's largest TETRA radio networks with the Republic of Kazakhstan Security Forces. Thales, with AGAT, deployed the network across the entire country for the Kazakhstan Ministry of the Interior.

Thales's secure solution provides nationwide mobile voice and data services, enabling the ministry and its various agencies to better serve the community and improve security for citizens. In addition, the Thales network architecture ensures a high level of resilience and availability to support the country's security forces in their missions, even in the event of a major incident or crisis.

Thales has delivered and commissioned a total of 84 radio relay sites, and has also deployed supervision stations in 16 cities around Kazakhstan to monitor and locate mobile equipment.

“The solution we have deployed meets all our customer’s requirements, particularly the ability of each site to provide a complete operational service even when disconnected from the core network,” said Jean-Michel Lagarde, Deputy SVP in charge of Secure Communications and Information Systems activities.

Thales also announced the entry of the TETRA network into operational service on Line 2 of the Santo Domingo Metro, inaugurated on 1 April 2013 at a ceremony attended by Danilo Medina, President of the Dominican Republic.
Fourteen stations are now open and the new line carries approximately 50,000 passengers a day. It connects to Line 1 (north-south), which is already equipped with Thales systems.

Thales has equipped 14 radio sites on Line 2, which crosses the city from east to west, each of which is equipped with transceivers to relay communications between stations, tunnels and the command post. Thales has also deployed a dedicated control post for monitoring communications along the entire length of Line 2.

For the equipment part of the contract, Thales supplied the fixed terminals for the driver consoles of the metro trains as well as ruggedized mobile terminals for security agents, cleaning and maintenance staff.

The network enables users to create dedicated workgroups as well as dynamic groups managed by the control post in the event of an incident or crisis. The TETRA network provides radio coverage of all stations and tunnels and links them with the command post. System availability is guaranteed by equipment redundancy and radio coverage redundancy to meet the availability requirements that are mandatory for public transport systems.