Paris, 14 December 2004
Cegelec, an integrated international group providing technological services to companies and local authorities, will deliver 650 telecom shelters to EADS Defence and Security Systems SA over the next three years within the framework of the French National Police’s Acropol digital radio communications network. To this end, a contract worth more than 20 million euros has been concluded with EADS Defence and Security Systems SA.
Cegelec’s mission, under the terms of this contract , will be, in particular, to integrate all of the necessary electrical and telecoms equipment into secure, prefabricated service units between five and six metres long, possibly weighing more than 25 tonnes each. Cegelec will also take care of installing them on designated sites to this end. More than 100 shelters will be delivered by the end of 2004.
The Acropol network, the French National Police’s new digital radio communications system developed by EADS, permits the exchange of voice and data. It provides national coverage and the network is common to all the services of the National Police. Acropol is an autonomous, secure network that benefits from protection by systematic, automated encryption of communications.
Cegelec, involved in the carrying out of complex telecoms projects using sophisticated technology, shows here its involvement in a rollout to the international Tet rapol standard. This standard, adopted by Acropol, has been approved by the Police Co- operat ion Group instituted within the Schengen space. Many networks across the world, including the French National Gendarmerie’s Rubis network, use this standard.