Articles tagged with: Nortel and Railway
Nortel Wins Czech GSM-R Expansion Contract
Czech Railways has selected nortel GSM-R technology to provide wireless communications to the 207 km Czech section of the International Railway Corridor IV between Austria and Poland. nortel partner Kapsch CarrierCom will supply and deploy the network. The project began in June 2009 and is scheduled for completion by end of 2009. more
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Lithuania Railways Completes First GSM-R Call Powered by Nortel
Lithuania Railways has made Lithuania's first GSM-R call over nortel GSM-R supplied equipment. The first call was completed on the Vilnius and Kaunas route which is one of Lithuania's busiest rail lines. more
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Algerian Railways Selects Nortel for GSM-R Expansion
nortel Networks has been selected to deploy a GSM-R wireless communications system for a new railway line in Algeria. The line links the cities of Ain Toutta and Msilla, as part of the High Plateaus railway system that crosses the country from East to West. more
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Nortel Wins Turkish GSM-R Contract for High-Speed Railway
nortel has been selected by Turkish construction company Yapi Merkezi to supply the telecommunications solution for the Polatli to Konya section of the Turkish high-speed railway project. The nortel solution, which includes GSM-R, SDH transmission backbone and dispatcher telephony systems, will cover the Polatli-Konya section of high-speed railway which runs between the cities of Ankara and Konya in Turkey. more
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Nortel Wins Spanish GSM-R Contract
nortel has been selected by Spain's national railway infrastructure company, ADIF, to implement, operate and maintain a complete GSM-R radio communication solution on the new Barcelona-Figueres high-speed line. The contract value is estimated at over €21 million (US$27 million). more
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Nortel Wins Algerian GSM-R Contract
nortel has been selected to provide wireless communications with its GSM-R technology for two new railway lines in Algeria. GSM-R is expected to enable the Algerian railway infrastructure agency, Agence Nationale d'Etudes et de Suivi de la Realisation des Investissements Ferroviaires (ANESRIF) to improve safety and increase average train speeds to reduce travel times while reducing operational costs. nortel's technology will also help increase network interoperability and support new voice applications running over the GSM-R network such as railway emergency and group conference calls. more
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Nortel Wins Lithuanian GSM-R Contract
Lithuanian Railways has ordered a GSM-R network from nortel, which is to be installed by local partner, Belam. The EUR50.5 million (US$74.3 million) contract includes the implementation of a GSM-R radio communication system along more than 1,563 kilometres (approximately 88% of the country's rail network) of Lithuania's rail routes. This is the first GSM-R network implementation in the Baltic region. The project is partially funded by the European Community Cohesion Fund for European regional development. more
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Alcatel-Lucent 1Q Revenue Down 12% At EUR3.9 Billion
PARIS -(Dow Jones)- French-American telecommunications equipment company Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Tuesday said its first-quarter revenue should amount to EUR3.9 billion, down 12% at current exchange rates. more
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Nortel Wins French GSM-R Contract
Reseau Ferre de France (RFF), owner and operator of the French rail network, has selected nortel as the exclusive supplier of telecommunications equipment for its national railway network under a public-private partnership (PPP). more
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GSM-R To Link French-Spanish Railway
TP Ferro, a Spanish and French railway consortium, will use railway communications technology from nortel for the new 44 km high-speed Figueres - Perpignan line currently being built between Spain and France. more
