New metro lines in the Dominican Republic and Panama are to be equipped with DigiMax TETRA infrastructure from Thales.

Already successfully deployed on Santo Domingo’s Line 1 in the Dominican Republic, the Thales system will now be deployed for onboard, ground-based and dispatcher communications on Line 2. This 20-kilometre route is expected to carry some 270?000 passengers a day when it opens next year. The existing TETRA management system on Line 1 will be shared between both lines.

A DigiMax solution will also be deployed at 11 TETRA radio sites on Panama City’s first metro line. The 14 km stretch will open in 2013.

DigiMax is a fully IP-based distributed architecture capable of supporting up to 32 regions and 960?000 users. Features of Thales’ TETRA network technology include TEDS and WIMAX integration for high-speed data needs.