TCCA News
Sapura Group: CCW’s Host Operator
The Sapura Group, Malaysia’s leading
technology organisation, has conrmed
that it will be host operator for TCCA’s
Critical Communications World (CCW)
2019, the world’s premier event for critical
communications professionals. CCW will be
held in Kuala Lumpur from 18-20 June.
Sapura operates the Government Integrated
Radio Network (GIRN), which uses some
600 TETRA base stations to serve more than
40,000 public protection and disaster relief
users in 16 agencies throughout Malaysia.
With technology central to Sapura’s six key
business areas, the company’s unwavering
commitment to R&D, innovation and
building capability has enabled it to be
globally competitive in the provision of
secured communications solutions for the
security enforcement and defence industry,
as well as across commercial vertical markets
such as oil and gas, railway, manufacturing
and aviation.
Mohd Zarif Hashim, Sapura Group
COO, said: “CCW is the established annual
showcase for the latest developments in
critical communications, and the platform for
shaping the future of this market. As ocial
Host Operator, we are delighted to welcome
the event and all attendees to Malaysia, and to
demonstrate the strengths of our region to the
critical communications world.”
“e Sapura Group has a true commitment
to the delivery of critical communications
requirements and is a long-standing
TCCA member,” said Tony Gray, TCCA
chief executive. “We are delighted that
Sapura has agreed to be Host Operator for
CCW, and we look forward to working
with the Sapura team and their Malaysian
Government and agency customers to ensure
that the invaluable work of the critical
communications industry reaches the widest
possible global audience.”
CCW 2019 will be held at the Malaysia
International Trade & Exhibition Centre
(MITEC), the country’s largest trade and
exhibition centre.
Below L-R: Hazlan Abdul Hakim, GIRN
programme director, Sapura; Jon Pittock, CCW
event director, MA Exhibitions; Datuk Mohd Zarif
Hashim, Sapura Group COO; Tony Gray, TCCA chief
executive; Dato Wan Shaharuddin Wan Mahmood,
Sapura executive vice-president; Kevin Graham,
TCCA’s Australasian Critical Communications Forum.
ETSI’s third MCX Plugtests event achieves a 92% success rate
ETSI has announced the end of its third
MCX Plugtests event, which was the first
to be conducted remotely, and that it
achieved a 92 per cent success rate.
The remote-only event enabled
vendors to connect via Virtual Private
Network with the ETSI HIVE and test their
MCX implementations with each other.
MCX is a term that collectively covers
mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT),
mission-critical data (MCData) and
mission-critical video (MCVideo). The
equipment tested consisted of missioncritical
application servers, mission-critical
clients, multicast/broadcast service
centres and IP multimedia subsystems.
Supported by TCCA and the European
Commission and endorsed by PSCE and
PSTA, the MCX Plugtests series works to
ensure interoperability between vendors’
implementations of the mission-critical
features that have been (and continue to
be) standardised in 3GPP, identify areas
where the standards may be open to
different interpretations (ETSI will feed
back its observations made during the
Plugtests to 3GPP Working Groups for
clarification), and to accelerate the time to
market for mission-critical products.
Over a two-month period (from 3
December 2018 to 31 January 2019),
the event ran 1,000 test cases between
26 vendors, and more than 150 test
sessions were executed between different
vendors. The first and second MCX
Plugtests (referred to as ETSI MCPTT
Plugtests – the naming convention was
changed from MCPTT to MCX, starting
with the third event, to signify the event
series’ increased scope), achieved
success rates of 85 per cent and 92
per cent respectively.
Participating vendors included: Alea,
Armour Communication, Athonet,
Beijing Jiaxun Feihong Electrical Co,
Enesys Technologies, Etelm, Expway,
Frequentis, Funkwerk Systems,
Harris Corporation, Indian Institute
of Technology-Bombay, Kapsch
CarrierCom, Leonardo, MCOPUniversity
of the Basque Country (UPV/
EHU), Motorola Solutions, Nemergent
Solutions, Nokia, Polaris Networks,
Prescom, Samsung, Softil, Sonim
Technologies, StreamWide, Tassta,
Valid8.com and ZTE Caltta.
A full report and the test specification
will be made publicly available on the
ETSI website in due course. The next
MCX Plugtests event, which will be a
combined remote and face-to-face
event, is planned for September 2019
in Europe.
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