Motorola Provides Two-Way Mobile
Communication Solutionto the City
of St. Petersburg for its 300th
AnniversaryST. PETERSBURG, Russia, -- May
23, 2003 -- Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announces that it has deployed an ASTRO®
digital two-way mobile communication solution for the City Police of St.
Petersburg and the Leningrad Region that is compliant with the International
Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) 25 standard. The
system will enable interoperability of various emergency services during the
celebration of St. Petersburg's 300th
anniversary.
This APCO 25-compliant digital
two-way mobile communication solution by Motorola was chosen by the City Police
of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region as a result of its tender for an APCO
25-compliant trunking communication system. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of
Russian Federation chose the APCO 25 digital standard for its mobile
communication systems based on their successful track record in a number of its
departments and organizations, including those operating in Transcaucasian
republics.
The project was implemented in an
extremely short time frame through a combined effort of Motorola, Budaphone Ltd.
and Radio Communication International. Motorola provided the city of St.
Petersburg with an extended coverage solution including three zones, 18
channels, 300 digital two-way radios and a control center to manage talk groups
in real time. This system will enable interoperability of law enforcement and
security organizations during the celebration of St. Petersburg's 300th
anniversary and the upcoming EU Summit. The system was designed and implemented
in collaboration with the City Police of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad
Region, the Department of Communications and Automation of Russian Ministry of
Internal Affairs, and the Special Technology and Communications Research and
Development Organization for Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The deployment of the ASTRO® conventional
mobile communication system for the St. Petersburg City Police marks another
milestone in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' strategy to migrate to
APCO 25, enabling digital communication in its two-way mobile systems. In 2002,
Motorola distributor, Budaphone Ltd., implemented a similar system for the Duty
Office of the Moscow City Police.
The APCO 25
digital standard enables interoperability between existing analog two-way radios
used by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement and
government agencies This then enables them to carry out a number of security
activities and offers their communities protection from unauthorized access. If
an enhanced level of security is desired, additional scrambling devices can be
added to the system.
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