Czech Railways Awards Kapsch CarrierCom, Nortel GSM-R Contract
October 4, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Czech Railways awarded Nortel partner Kapsch CarrierCom AG an order for developing the Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R) system along the International Corridor IV rail route running from the Czech Republic through Slovakia and Hungary to destinations in Greece, Turkey and Romania.
This new portion of the International Corridor IV GSM-R project covers the distance from the towns of Kolin, east of Prague, to Kúty on the Slovakia border and on to Hohenau on the Austrian border.
Construction begins in November 2007 and the projected completion date is the end of 2008.
As general contractor, Kapsch CarrierCom will deliver a new digital European standard GSM-R system to connect staff on board Czech Railways trains to ground-based staff.
The system enables European Train Control System Level 2 digital radio-based signal and train protection for displaying movement authority and other signals in the train driver's cab.
Nortel is supplying the GSM-R infrastructure (an application of the GSM standard for mobile communications) including the train radio system for supporting the electronic exchange of train and operating data.
This allows cross-border trains to be processed quickly and passed to the rail operators in neighboring countries, said Nortel.
Kapsch CarrierCom was awarded the project after conducting a pilot scheme project along 200 kilometers of track between Prague and Kolin in the Czech Republic. Nortel supplied the GSM-R infrastructure for the pilot scheme and is the GSM-R infrastructure equipment provider for the project.
The extension to the Czech digital train radio system involves adding 67 new base stations at intervals along the track and installing an additional base station controller to deliver packet data functionality.
Kapsch CarrierCom will supply the necessary transmission equipment including optical cables, dispatcher equipment and communication recording systems and infrastructure including masts, antennas, handsets and power supplies.
Nortel will provide design and supply of GSM-R network technology including base stations, base station controllers and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).
Source: Nortel.