TELECOMS


NRT deploys new telecoms platform


Network Rail Telecom has deployed the Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform across the UK’s rail infrastructure. David Stevenson reports.


Network Rail Telecom (NRT) is delivering an advanced communications         platform, which features the industry’s only commercially available 500 gigabit per second (Gb/s) super-channel solution, is designed to support future terabit (Tb) super-channels without requiring new chassis.


  capacity – at the click of a mouse – to rapidly meet customer service demands for high capacity, low latency services.


 in deploying the network to scale to terabits in the future supports “all our  meeting the increasing demands of the railway”.


  railway for a better Britain.”


NRT is the company’s national telecoms asset management and service  delivering mission-critical telecoms systems, managed services, and solutions to the UK’s railway.


Craig Ellis, head of technology and engineering at NRT, said: “We            providing improved network reliability, scalability and safety for our teams.”


  reliable network infrastructure and leading-edge network management     the majority of our nodes are at the railway track and accessing these sites is not as easy as accessing a traditional telco node.


 highly reliable through its use of photonic integrated circuits, and the software driven management system enables remote diagnostics and turn up of bandwidth, ideal for this type of network, keeping our people safe yet allowing our networks to grow.”


There will be an interview with Craig Ellis in the next edition of RTM.


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