Sepura is a maker of professional TETRA radios used by police, fire and rescue services, and in Germany emergency organisations communicate over the BOS digital radio network. The Ruf, German for call, is the alert a handset makes when a user is being called on that network. Radio enthusiasts and emergency service fans have shared recordings of these tones online, and video creators now reuse them to give fictional dispatch scenes an authentic sound, because the tone is instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with professional radio traffic.