The Interior Ministry has awarded the RRF project to the consortium led by Airbus and Capgemini, with Streamwide, among others, as a partner.
Modernize law enforcement and emergency services. By finally abandoning Tetra technology. This is the ambition of the Radio Network of the Future (RRF) project, announced in 2017 and whose result of the call for tenders fell in mid-October. ” Today, the police, the gendarmes, the firefighters, the SAMU use radio equipment designed in the early 1990s, specific to each force, and which does not allow the transmission of images in real time from the field. With the radio network of the future, France will be equipped with a very high-speed communication network (4G then 5G) common to all security and rescue actors, with new functionalities: video calls, position sharing, etc. “, praised the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin on October 13. In order to equip the approximately 300,000 to 400,000 users (police, gendarmes, customs, civil security personnel, etc.) with this new secure and resilient communication system, Beauvau has decided to award the contract to the consortium led by Airbus and Capgemini for architecture and integration, to the detriment of the group formed by Thales. But a multitude of small players, because of their status as partners, will also share this cake of 540 million euros. Among them, Econocom or StreamWide.
Difficult to quantify
At the end of 2018, the company specializing in communication software signed a multi-year agreement for the white label integration of its platform into the Tactilon Agnet range of Airbus Secure Land Communications (SLC). ” The part [revenant à Streamwide] remains at this stage difficult to quantifyunderlines the analyst of the firm TP Icap Midcap. The impact on the group’s accounts will thus be less than in the case of the success of the consortium around Thales. [dans lequel Streamwide faisait aussi partie, le groupe] having a simple distribution agreement. On the other hand, this contract will strengthen the technological partnership between Streamwide and Airbus SLC and potentially open other doors for it, after a 2022 financial year which promises to be a year of transition.
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