Zetron and Cassidian join forces

Zetron has announced that it has signed a master supply agreement with Cassidian Communications which will see the companies continue to cooperate in the design and development of products that integrate and operate smoothly and consistently with each other.

Zetron says the agreement offers important benefits to North American customers by providing them with open standards-based dispatch and P25 radio network solutions that are robust, reliable and highly interoperable.

The agreement is an extension of joint projects Zetron and Cassidian Communications have undertaken in the recent past. Zetron’s Advanced Communications System (Acom) utilising CSSI-based technology was a key component of the CORP25 solution Cassidian Communications provided to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the 2010 G8 and G20 summits in Ontario, Canada. The CORP25 digital trunked radio network provided the solution’s radio infrastructure, while Zetron’s Acom served as its console system. Zetron says the combined solution worked flawlessly during the summits despite an extremely high rate of usage.

A similar solution, developed in 2011 for Cumberland County in Tennessee, also was successful. It included an Acom dispatch system connected directly to a countywide CORP25 digital radio network through a P25 CSSI interface.