Frequentis
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Frequentis is an austrian
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 high-tech company that develops communication and information solutions for safety-critical applications. It offers its control centre solutions
Control center solutions
Control Center Solution is a generic term for different designs of technical arrangement within staffed command & control facilities. Control Centers represent more or less integrated installations with one or more work positions that are used to manage resources in order to achieve results in...

, products and services world-wide to a broad range of customers acting in various mission-critical fields. These fields include Air Traffic Management (civil and military air traffic control
Air traffic control
Air traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...

) and Public Safety
Public Safety
Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters .-See also:* By nation...

 & Transport
Public transport
Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...

 (police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

, rescue and fire services, coastal rescue, railways, shipping, and others).

Frequentis is also a founding shareholder of GroupEAD Europe S.L., the service provider company operating the European Aeronautical Database on behalf of EUROCONTROL (this project is considered important towards the Single European Sky
Single European Sky
The Single European Sky is a European Commission initiative by which the design, management and regulation of airspace will be coordinated throughout the European Union ....

). To which it is to deliver the first common voice communications systems.

History

The Frequentis was founded in post WWII
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Vienna, in 1947. Two young engineers, Emanuel Strunz and Walther Hamm started working together. Their first contract was to help construct the Vienna II radio station, thus beginning the company's long association with voice communication systems.

An eclectic product portfolio followed, covering everything from steel hardening facilities to ultrasound therapy units. The first order for an air traffic control facility arrived in 1955, for the Air Traffic Control system at the airport vienna
Vienna International Airport
Vienna International Airport , located in Schwechat and southeast of central Vienna, is the busiest and biggest airport in Austria. It is often referred to as Schwechat, the name of the county it is in. The airport is capable of handling wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340...

. In 1983 Hannes Bardach became the Managing Direcotr and later the owner of Frequentis. In 1999 Frequentis established its US subsidiary.

Their first major contract in the public transport field followed in 2002 when they received the GSM-R
GSM-R
GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications - Railway or GSM-Railway is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication and applications. A sub-system of European Rail Traffic Management System , it is used for communication between train and railway regulation...

 dispatcher contract by Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

 in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. In 2005 the company gained the order to create an integrated communications system for the London Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...

 (Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...

). In 2006 the order for furnishing the control centre for the norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 public safety radio network Nødnett
Norwegian Public Safety Radio
The Norwegian Public Safety Radio is a public safety network system based on Terrestrial Trunked Radio which is being implemented by the Directorate for Emergency Communication throughout Norway...

.

Today, Frequentis and its associated companies employ staff at locations in over 50 countries. It has an export rate of over 90%. While the core business remains the ATM sector, the company also builds voice communication and information systems for defence, public safety, public transport and maritime markets.

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