Nokia to upgrade Polish railway comms
Poland will have its railway critical communications network modernised by Nokia and its partners, Herkules, Pozbud and Wasko.
A five-year contract has been signed, which will see Nokia deploy a nationwide turnkey GSM-R and mission-critical backhaul network to enhance railway security and reliability throughout Poland.
This project, Nokia's largest-ever GSM-R contract, will provide PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. (PKP PLK) with one of the biggest state-of-the-art railway communications networks in Europe.
Full GSM-R coverage of approximately 14,000 km of rail tracks is expected to be achieved by 2023.
Once completed, the new network will enable the PLK railway company to fulfil European Union requirements for ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System), the bloc's European-wide standard for railway signalling. The project is majority funded by the EU, and complemented by Polish state funds.
GSM-R is a mandatory part of the ERTMS, which is under deployment across Europe to help rail operators like PKP PLK seamlessly manage and control trains in combination with the European Train Control System. The solution delivered by Nokia will help PKP PLK increase train traffic reliability and safety, ultimately improving passenger satisfaction.
Nokia will provide installation, commissioning, third-party integration, first-line care and maintenance for 13,800 km of the GSM-R network, plus more than 11,000 km of optical fibre-based backhaul network infrastructure with IP multiprotocol label switching (IP/MPLS) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical network equipment. It includes an end-to-end GSM-R solution (radio and core network including NetAct, messaging and diverse third-party products), an IP-MPLS core network, security, and DWDM technology for the fibre-optic network. Herkules, Pozbud and Wasko will be responsible for civil works, including construction work for laying fibre.
Nokia has successfully deployed four GSM-R turnkey projects with PKP PLK in Poland over the last six years.
"Based on our expertise as market leader in GSM-R and critical communications networks, our unparalleled experience in turnkey projects and our successful long-term history in large-scale network deployments in Poland, Nokia is a natural choice for this kind of ambitious rollout,” said Nokia Senior Vice President Europe, Global Enterprise and Public Sector Matthieu Bourguignon.
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