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# Transport Communication Networks

![Transport Communication Networks](https://www.systra.com/ireland/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2023/07/transport-communication-networks.jpg)

**SYSTRA understands the importance of designing and delivering secure, reliable telecommunications systems for railways in Ireland & the UK – helping the industry embrace new technologies to enhance the safety, efficiency and performance of rail services.**

### Communications for safe and reliable railways

Railways frequently require independent communications networks to meet their
specific operational and commercial needs. These networks play a vital role in
enabling running safe and efficient train services through the provision of
reliable, secure communication channels between drivers, trackworkers,
signallers and controllers.

Railway operators face the challenge of ensuring new telecommunication systems
provide requisite functionality whilst meeting stringent availability, capacity,
latency, coverage and security requirements. Due to their niche nature,
technology changes in railway telecommunications networks typically occur at
much longer intervals than their public counterparts hence managing the risk of
obsolescence is a key consideration when deploying new telecommunications
technology.

SYSTRA offers expertise and experience in this niche area to help railways
select, scope and design their fixed and radio-based telecommunications
networks.

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**As an independent railway telecommunications consultancy, SYSTRA can select the most appropriate technologies for each rail application.**

### Expertise in all railway telecommunications systems

The transport communications specialists at SYSTRA have expertise in circuit and
packet-switched fixed telecommunications networks, Global System for Mobile
Communications-Railway (GSM-R) and metro communication-based train control
(CBTC) technologies. This capability is supplemented by expertise in
cyber-security, reliability, availability and maintainability and engineering
safety management.

As well as supporting operational communications, telecommunications networks
are increasingly used to transmit and receive signalling data, making reliable
systems an essential component of modern signalling systems. Notably GSM-R radio
networks are used as bearer for European Train Control System (ETCS) data on
many of the world’s mainline railways, which SYSTRA helped deliver. Similarly,
metro CBTC systems depend on radio-based communications technologies to control
the safe movement of trains.

### Delivering safe, secure and reliable rail communications

SYSTRA understands the challenges and opportunities for railway communications
systems, as the railways embrace new technologies and adjust to managing greater
volumes of voice and data traffic.

Our expertise as an independent adviser helps clients to implement the most
appropriate communication systems and signalling technologies to support
changing patterns of railway usage, while ensuring security, safety and
reliability are never compromised.

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