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Nortel Bags GSM-R Contract from Indian Railways

Indian Railways has decided to use wireless railway communications technology from Nortel to help improve the safety and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail arteries in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

The Nortel GSM-R network will provide wireless communications along the 751-km, 90-station line connecting the major Uttar Pradesh industrial and business centres of Ghaziabad and Mugalsarai. The wireless system will be used to connect train conductors, on-board crew, train dispatchers, station personnel and other operations groups, such as those responsible for attaching and separating rail cars at station yards.

This Uttar Pradesh signalling and communications contract is the largest of its type awarded by Indian Railways to date as part of the modernisation of its national railway infrastructure. The contract was secured by a regional consortium consisting of Ansaldo Signal, its Asia Pacific subsidiary Union Switch & Signal, MR Trading and Leighton Asia (Southern) Limited. Nortel was selected by Leighton to provide the GSM-R network. This is Nortel's second such contract in India. Nortel was previously chosen as sole provider of a GSM-R solution to Eastern Railway of West Bengal.


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