Case Study
Aculab and Public safety: Aculab’s software stack underpins massive PSAP solution in Germany.
The challenge The customer’s flagship system, a standard part of the central emergency call handling system used by police forces, fire departments and rescue services for many years, was ready for further evolution. A recent modernisation project introduced communications with IP interfaces, incorporating Aculab’s Prosody X boards as a key component. Crucially, however, the latest development had to be an all-IP , software-based solution. The police force of the country’s most populous state, containing four of Germany’s ten largest cities, had to be equipped with the most advanced control centre technology. Aculab’s customer was contracted to build networked central control units at five sites throughout the state, to which all of the state’s forty-seven police headquarters were t