Deployment will enable secure and reliable communications among all railway operational staff. Credit: Alf van Beem.

Kapsch CarrierCom has completed the implementation of its Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R) across Luxembourg’s 271km-long railway network.

The works for national railway company Société Nationale Des Chemins De Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) took three years to complete.

In 2015, Kapsch rolled out the all-IP solution RDN.core, which is built on the third Generation Partnership Project Release 4. The RDN.core is a communications application used by rail operators.

The deployment will enable secure and reliable communications among all railway operational staff, including train drivers, station controllers and dispatchers.

“Once again we made a big step towards the standardisation of railway communication in Europe, which means more efficient and safer railway traffic.”

Kapsch CarrierCom CEO Kari Kapsch said: “With the completion of the implementation of the project in Luxembourg, we closed the last white spot of the GSM-R coverage in the Benelux countries.

“Once again we made a big step towards the standardisation of railway communication in Europe, which means more efficient and safer railway traffic across European countries and borders.”

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Under the contract with CFL, Kapsch CarrierCom will maintain the GSM-R network system till 2021.

Kapsch CarrierCom was selected by CFL to carry out the implementation of the communication network following a Europe-wide tender.

The company focuses on providing end-to-end telecommunications solutions for mission-critical networks.

Currently, it is working to expand its portfolio to address Public Safety LTE (PS-LTE) use cases and the next generation of railway communication networks.