Swiss Rail Company SBB Contracts Siemens to build GSM-Railway Mobile Network.Business/High-Tech Editors MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2002 The Swiss national rail company, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Railway) SBB Sports by Brooks (sports webblog) SBB Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil (Portugese: Bible Society of Brazil) ), has contracted the Siemens Information and Communication Mobile division (Siemens mobile Siemens cellular telephones were mobile phones, produced by Siemens AG. In 2005 the Taiwanese company BenQ acquired the financially bleeding mobile phone subsidiary from Siemens and gained the exclusive right to use Siemens trademark for 5 years. ) to build its mobile railway network. In the first phase SBB will invest roughly EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 14 million and the SBB Advisory Board have appropriated approximately EUR 254 million for the whole project over the next few years. Siemens is the world market leader for GSM-Railways, the communication platform for railways, with six commercial networks and four test networks in a total of ten countries. The SBB want to build, in five steps over the coming years, a so-called GSM-Railway (GSM-R GSM-R Global System for Mobile Communication - Railway (European Railway Wireless Standard) ) mobile network in Switzerland, which will be the future international standard for railway telecommunications. Siemens mobile will start work on the construction of the central network after previously having successfully constructed a GSM-R test network, by way of a pilot scheme, for the SBB. GSM-R is a GSM based communications platform and is currently being adopted as the new European standard for railway communications. GSM-R integrates voice applications for train communication into a single system, which up till now has been based on different analogue and digital systems. This allows for a single international communication standard for train communication and also offers the possibility of data exchange between different train control systems. In the future, data transfer will account for a large part of the communications traffic on GSM-R networks. The range of applications could be extended to inform and entertain the passengers and could also include service features: for example a ticket machine could signal through GSM-R that it is empty or that it needs servicing. The European Transportation Control System (ETCS ETCS European Train Control System ETCS Senior Chief Electronics Technician (Naval Rating) ETCS Expeditionary Tactical Communications System ETCS Extension Technology and Computer Services ), that Siemens is presently helping to develop, also uses GSM-R as carrier for its communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. . This system would allow for a higher traffic flow on the same basic track infrastucture. The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (Siemens mobile) offers the complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones A wireless telephone that transmits to and receives signals from a base station within a range of a few hundred feet. Cordless phones are for local use and cannot travel long distances as can cellphones and satellite phones. See DECT and multihandset cordless. as well as products for wireless home networks. The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and 3G mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. to intelligent networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Mobile Applications cover end-to-end solutions for Messaging, Location Based Services or Mobile Payment. For fiscal 2002 (September 30), Siemens mobile recorded sales of EUR 11 billion and employed approximately 28.600 people worldwide. You can access further information about Siemens mobile on the Internet at http://www.siemens-mobile.com You can access press releases, photographs and further information on the internet at: http://www.siemens-mobile.com/press |
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