São Paulo Military Police and Alcatel-Lucent prove the benefits of LTE for public safety
São Paulo, January 26, 2012 – The Military Police of São Paulo State and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have successfully demonstrated 4G LTE trials as a support for public safety networks of the State.
Two Police Operations Centers have been trialing fully operational LTE networks to carry out daily activities since May 2011. The technology has allowed live transmission of data, video and images with high speed and quality. The network supports intense traffic of different types of data through the different types of device used by the Police.
The convergence of media will be key for the Police in the future. They expect to keep the city safe relying on a 4G network in 2012.
“São Paulo Military Police is worldwide reference regarding technology for public safety. The LTE trials with Alcatel-Lucent has allowed us to use several applications to understand how this network can improve our efficiency and reduce our operational costs, besides generating return for the State and São Paulo population” said Colonel Alfredo Deak, responsible for the technology sector with São Paulo Military Police.
“It is very important to be involved in a project like this. Alcatel-Lucent has a complete solution for LTE networks besides an innovative product and services portfolio for public safety and Governments. With an entire area dedicated to this segment, today we have the best technology offer for public safety in the market”, affirmed Jonio Foigel, President of Alcatel-Lucent activities in Brazil.
Alcatel-Lucent has offered all infrastructure for the trials, including network core, radio base stations, microwave links, terminals and applications server. The company is global leader in 4G LTE technology and has a diversified portfolio, with end to end solutions to attend carriers, governments and enterprises in different sectors with next generation networks infrastructure.
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To meet the needs of first responders, Alcatel-Lucent acts as the end-to-end system integrator to design, integrate, deploy, operate and maintain robust, resilient communication solutions. Alcatel-Lucent understands public safety requirements and brings to each project its accumulated expertise in the customization of mission-critical communications systems. A broad product portfolio provides mission-critical network solutions that reliably and efficiently interconnects all types of fixed and mobile communication networks, and provides LTE for public safety mobile broadband. Alcatel-Lucent solutions are effectively running in multiple mission-critical Public Safety networks around the world. And Bell Labs innovations that include lightRadioTM are helping reshape future for public safety networks. 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. For more information on Alcatel-Lucent solutions for Public Safety, please visit: www.alcatel-lucent.com/publicsafety . For more information on Public Safety LTE, please join our community at www.facebook.com/publicsafetylte.
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