From mission-critical WANs to OT cloud and AI, metro operators’ digital ambitions depend on resilient telecoms that ensure security, scalability and performance, writes Benoît Leridon, Nokia’s Network Infrastructure Transportation Market Leader.

Key features of the technology include built-in failover, self-healing capabilities and real-time monitoring to ensure high availability and efficiency.

From virtualisation to AI-driven maintenance, Nokia’s Benoît Leridon highlights how OT clouds and data centres are becoming essential pillars of resilient, intelligent rail operations.

Nokia and Siemens Mobility to Deliver Mission-Critical Communications for Driverless Western Sydney Metro.

By Benoit Leridon, Head of Transportation Business Network Infrastructure at Nokia.

Nokia collaborates with Siemens Mobility to provide state-of-the-art IP/MPLS backbone communications network and Nokia NetGuard Cybersecurity solution for the new Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport line.

Nokia today announced that it has successfully completed testing of voice and data call, over the world’s first 4.9G/LTE private wireless network to support European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 Signalling, for phase 1 of NCRTC’s Regional Rapid Transit System. The project, covering 82 km rail route with 25 stations between Delhi and Meerut, will be implemented in four stages and will be completed by 2025.

The Future X architecture harnesses technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things, edge computing, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and high-performance networking - including 5G - to drive dramatic productivity improvements across a wide range of industrial sectors.

In the Digital Rail Testbed in Germany’s Ore Mountains, the sector initiative Digitale Schiene Deutschland, Nokia and Kontron Transportation are jointly building a 5G-based communication network to test the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS). Now an important milestone could be reached by realizing one of the first FRMCS test calls worldwide.

World’s first LTE/4.9G private wireless network to support European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 Signaling for phase 1 of NCRTC’s Regional Rapid Transit System.