Technical Forum (TF)

The Technical Forum is responsible for the management of the TETRA Interoperability process. This includes the steering of the development of TETRA Interoperability Profiles (TIPs), TETRA Interoperability Certification Test Plans and TETRA Interoperability Certification Requirements Tables (TIC-RTs); the monitoring and reporting on the progress of the Interoperability testing; and the status of Interoperability certification.

Technical Forum Contacts

• Chairman of the Technical Forum: Harald Ludwig
  e-mail: harald.ludwig@arico-tech.eu, phone: +43-699-1718 4567
  
• Secretary of the Technical Forum: Deborah Washington
  e-mail: TFsec@tetra-association.com, phone: +44-191-231 4328
  
• Official TETRA Association Interoperability Certification Body:
  please see the Interoperability page
  

Please see the Certificates page to download the published Interoperability Certificates.

To join the Technical Forum please send an e-mail to harald.ludwig@arico-tech.eu. The Technical Forum is open to all TETRA Association members.

TIP Working Groups and TIP Working Group Contacts

The Technical Forum has established four Working Groups, each responsible for a particular standardized TETRA interface:

• V+D Working Group for the TETRA Air Interface
  Chairman: Changing amongst WG members, Please contact: TFsec@tetra-association.com
• DMO Working Group for the TETRA Direct Mode Interface
  Chairman: Changing amongst WG members, Please contact: TFsec@tetra-association.com
• ISI Working Group for the TETRA Inter-System Interface
  Chairman: Changing amongst WG members, Please contact: TFsec@tetra-association.com
• PEI Working Group for the TETRA Peripheral Equipment Interface
  Chairmen: Nick Smye and David Taylor,
  e-mails: Nick.Smye@analysysmason.com and David.Taylor@analysysmason.com
  
• APPS Working Group for TETRA Applications
  Chairman: Hannu Aronsson, e-mail: haa@portalify.com

To join a working group mailing list please contact the chairman of that working group.

Technical Forum Sub-Pages

• Interoperability (process descriptions: Interoperability Certification, Technical Forum)
• Specifications (specifications for interoperability: TIP Documents, Test Plans, etc.)
• Interoperability Certificates (download all published IOP Certificates)
• Change Requests CR0xx, CR1xx and CR2xx (List of all approved Change Requests to Technical Forum specifications)
• Members Enquiry (specifications in Members Enquiry, in Resolution, after Resolution and Members Enquiry finalization)
• Meetings (documents from Technical Forum and Resolution Meetings)
• Templates (document templates, naming conventions, etc.)
• Archive (Historical TF documents - for reference only, not for use!)
• IOP Test Sessions (IOP Test Session management - restricted access!)