The Fire Service will implement Marconi OMS1664 in the hope of increasing its core network capacity by connecting its control center with the public network and eight professional fire stations; 19 auxiliary fire brigade locations; and the Dortmund airport fire station.
The OMS1664 combines data communications, including Ethernet, with next-generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and Wavelength Division Multiplexing technologies, providing high-capacity aggregation and switching and adapting automatically to variations in traffic. Marconi’s ServiceOn Access network management system will assist the software in an attempt to ensure that the Fire Service’s network matches the high-reliability demands of the emergency service.
Our busy control centre handles around 75,000 fire alarms every year, said Clemens Lehmann, Head of Telecommunications at Dortmund Fire Service.
Statistically speaking, that’s one call every seven minutes. We co-ordinate our response to each call from our control centre, forwarding them on to the fire stations in the relevant city area. We also have to archive each call very diligently. To match all these demands, we demand a fast, responsive and reliable telecommunications network. Marconi’s OMS1664 and ServiceOn Access delivers that level of mission-critical performance.
Marconi is expected to supply the Fire Service’s officers with an extensive networked telecommunications system, enabling them to manage emergency calls made as well as offer administration services. The upgraded network will also provide leased-line connectivity to police, other public services and Dortmunder Energie und Wasser GmbH, the local energy and water supplier.
