Team Simoco - AirRadio upgrades London Heathrow Network with Xfin Technology from Team Simoco

31 January 2008 - AirRadio Ltd today announces the achievement of the advancement to their London Heathrow Trunk Network, deploying Xfin technology from Team Simoco Limited (TSL). The arrangement advancement is the latest investment by AirRadio, the UK’s better provider of operational radios to the UK Air Transport Industry, acknowledging their charge to accouterment avant-garde casework to their barter who cover airlines, arena handlers and airport account companies.

Customers will account from added capacity, added calling functionality and arrangement resilience. Xfin’s activating approach pooling functionality enables any accessible approach to be automatically allocated to any radio, maximising approach acceptance above the website and simplifying alarm set up for the user.

The addition of cantankerous arrangement accumulation calling allows radios to accomplish in a adrift approach above the accomplished arrangement rather than ahead defective to be assigned to key areas of the network, such as a defined Terminal. The Xfin advancement has created a individual operational area above all airport terminals at Heathrow for administration analytical advice enabling operations ascendancy to alarm assets from any allotment of the airport if bare at abbreviate notice.

AirRadio Operations Director, John Fincham confirmed: “The advancement of our Heathrow arrangement to Xfin provides our barter with added account adequacy and added able and acknowledging support. Since deploying Xfin we accept apparent accessible accommodation access by over 20% accouterment ability optimisation for accepted barter and the befalling to aggrandize our chump abject at Heathrow.”

He continued: “In agreement of arrangement animation we now apperceive that the arrangement can cope in an emergency scenario, for archetype the contempo accident in January involving Flight BA038. The arrangement remained breath and uncongested during this time enabling all our barter to acquaint actual instructions apropos their operations.”

Mike Norfield, Managing Director of Team Simoco said: “Xfin’s IP technology has revolutionised PMR, accumulation added functionality with a lower amount of buying over the artefact lifecycle. The success of the Heathrow deployment confirms that Xfin has the animation to be acclimated in the a lot of mission-critical operational environments in the world.”

Xfin comprises the latest MPT1327 trunked radio abject stations with IP Ethernet connectivity to accommodate a absolutely accountability tolerant, accessible architecture, radio communications system. Xfin provides an IP addressable abject station, acceptance limited agreement from authorised cadre and web-based diagnostics. In addition, anniversary Xfin has a blast interface for abutting PABX/PSTN band interface, with abounding VoIP acquisition on the IP arrangement to agreement non-blocking to blast while ability is available.

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For added advice contact:

AirRadio Ltd
Tracey Blandford,
Tel: 0845 330 0782
Email: marketing@air-radio.com
www.air-radio.com

Team Simoco
Context Public Relations
Craig Coward / Luke Ford
Tel: 01625 511966
Email: teamsimoco@contextpr.co.uk
www.teamsimoco.com

About AirRadio:

AirRadio Ltd provides adaptable articulation and abstracts communications for mission-critical environments to added than 85 accumulated barter at 25 UK airports, including airlines, airports and arena operation companies. Its solutions acquiesce audience to access the ability of their circadian operations, thereby abbreviation costs, accretion revenues and convalescent utilization.

AirRadio has accomplished 59% advance in radio numbers on the London Heathrow Trunk Network in the 5 years back the antecedent arrangement upgrade.

The alternative of Xfin Blade enables AirRadio’s arrangement at London Heathrow to accommodated the new European RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) directive.

AirRadio’s action for addition saw the barrage the aboriginal Digital Trunk Network committed to the Air Transport Industry – accepted as AR-en - at Birmingham International Airport in September 2006 and over the endure 3 years AirRadio has broadcast its account accouterment to the Utilities, Commercial and Public Sector industries.

AirRadio is a affiliate of The Telecom Services Group of Spice plc.

About Team Simoco:

Team Simoco is one of the World’s arch radio communications specialists, accouterment acid bend Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) and Private Mobile Radio (PMR) articles and casework to organisations about the globe. Team Simoco operates in a growing ambit of markets about the World, including emergency services, military, accessible sector, utilities and transport.

The Xfin Blade conforms to the MPT1327 standard, ensuring handset affinity and enabling systems to be replaced after added terminal costs. The independent arrangement aswell ensures no interfacing issues in agreement of cabling protocols and band levels.

Team Simoco is a affiliate of The Telecom Services Group of Spice plc.