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Press Releases 2013
12/2013
Maintenance visits to the Central region. Aramac and Winton have received
upgrades to the power supplies to handle the longer than normal power
outages experienced in the region. These sites can have power outages as
long as 6 hours at a time.
Longreach, Blackall and Barcaldine were also visited.
11/2013
Gatton, Boonah and Kalbar picocells have now been added to WBB networks.
MTELPage 2013 is now on trial in Cairns QFRS. This dramatically upgraded
suite of programs has been improved to now provide redundant messaging
facilities to the Comms Centres. The paging suite will be able to send
messages not only locally but also via the WAN to the Springhill and QEOC
messaging systems.
The application suite upgrade is the result of 4 months of programming to
change the modem applications from serial to TCP connected devices. The move
to TCP has increased messaging performance by as much as 30% as the new
systems are driven by the speed of the TCP infrastructure.
The new suite is the beginning of further enhancements to the message
delivery to the WBB networks. MTELPage 2013 is expected to be rolled out to
all Comm's Centres in the first quarter of 2014.
10/2013
The original CD based CDAT 2008 software description has been added to
the website.
9/2013
The back office applications running the WBB systems have been increased
to include a third computer system as a backup. The feeds to the WBB sites
can now be delivered by the internet using a VPN, as well as dual UniMAX
wireless interfaces.
The Satellite feed from Hutchison paging and Springhill Metro networks
have been added as redundant feeds into the WBB network.
Atherton has been added to the WBB.
8/2013
Bamaga, Forrest Hill and Laidley have been added to the WBB.
6/2013
MTEL completed a maintenance run throughout the Far Northern Region. Maintenance runs perform checks on the antenna and transmitter
systems, and batteries are replaced in systems were the age of the battery
is 4 or more years. 20 sites were visited, nearly all were in excellent
condition considering the lashing of two cyclones in the last few years.
In addition 6 sites were upgraded to Wireless Broadband (W2B) front ends.
Mt Isa, El Arish, Herberton, Milla Milla, Ravenshoe and Port Douglas. These
sites have the new Intelimax modems from Maxon. The site below is Pt Douglas
system which is amongst one of the busiest auxiliary system in the state.
The Far Northern region will benefit from the changes to WBB as the
Tablelands have many sites within 20 - 50 kilometers of one another.
Messages will be sent by W2B to all picocells in that region therefore
Auxiliary Fireman in any of the towns will receive messages. Messages can be
delivered within one second from the MTEL operations centre. Once the new
links from Firecom centre's to MTEL are established messages will be sent
within 2 seconds, compared to 35 seconds under the current system.
5/2013
With the continuing development of the W2B infrastructure MTEL has now
established a satellite feed from the 3 Paging network. This will provide
W2B paging coverage into the regions outside of the Brisbane metropolitan
coverage. It completes the final stage of joining the 3 Paging network with
MTEL. The first regions to receive the benefit of increased coverage will be
the Far Northern region in June.
4/2013
MTEL completed a maintenance run throughout the western South Coast
region. Maintenance runs perform checks on the antenna and transmitter
systems, and batteries are replaced in systems were the age of the battery
is 4 or more years.
Sites Maintained: Laidley, Rosewood, Forrest Hill.
3/2013
MTEL completed a maintenance run throughout the western North Coast
region. Maintenance runs perform checks on the antenna and transmitter
systems. Batteries are replaced and on this run Push Buttons were installed
in some sites to allow manual activation of the pagers from the picocell.
The push buttons were installed as a result of the January storms and the
PSTN network failed for long periods of time rendering the picocell
unusable.
Sites Maintained: Kilkivan, Goomeri, Murgon, Wondai,
Wooroolin, Kingaroy, Nanango, Crows Nest.
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