1. Sepura Goes Nuclear with Cern Agreement
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always inevitable!
Technology from Sepura, the TETRA digital radio business based in Cambridge UK, is being
used by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research located near Geneva.
CERN, whose physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the
universe, has confirmed its decision to implement a 3T/Sepura TETRA infrastructure for
communication.
3T Communications, a Sepura company, has been appointed to install the infrastructure in
two phases. The first has seen 123 Sepura radios made available to firemen, guardians and
rescue workers, along with three base stations and numerous repeaters and gateways, to
address the site’s immediate operational needs.
The second-phase deployment of STProtect Beacons will equip third parties, such as
scientists and experts working at the laboratory, with further radios.
The laboratory has a unique layout, featuring more than 600 buildings on its surface, as well
as many underground facilities, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), its flagship
accelerator, which sits in a ring tunnel with a circumference of 26.7 kilometres, located
between 50 and 175 metres below ground.
The solution, consisting of Sepura radios and 3T infrastructure, addresses CERN’s
requirement for a consistent and reliable communications system to serve the needs both of
the emergency services and of staff operating and maintaining the CERN systems.
CERN has chosen a suite of radios to cover an extensive range of requirements. CERN’s
main considerations after successful tests in a magnetic environment were the excellent
water and dust resistance of the radio and the fact it was suited to deliver high performance
to underground users.
Sepura CEO, Gordon Watling said it was “a great honour to be associated with this world-
renowned organisation.”
He added: “The combination of Sepura's market-leading TETRA product portfolio with 3T’s
comprehensive infrastructure offering enables us to deliver an entire critical communications
solution to organisations such as CERN, where robust communications are integral to worker
safety.”
Aurélie Pascal, CERN project manager, said CERN chose Sepura and 3T after a competitive
bidding process, followed by stringent tests and added that the solution fully met CERN’s

2. “challenging requirements. For us, the ability to communicate with, and track, workers in the
area and underground was a crucial criterion.”
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