Ericsson has been awarded a contract with Global Crossing in the UK to provide an upgraded IP telephony platform for the company’s RailNet network. As a result of the supplier contract, the Ericsson solution will enable advanced IP telephony services for Global Crossing’s RailNet customers, which comprise 65,000 users from UK train operator Network Rail and rail infrastructure companies.
‘This significant investment demonstrates Global Crossing’s continued commitment to evolve RailNet into a fully converged IP platform that offers the entire rail community a flexible set of secure offerings and new service applications that satisfy the safety-critical nature of the rail business’, commented Phil Metcalf, managing director of Global Crossing UK.
The upgraded RailNet platform will provide cost-effective, seamless communications for voice, intranet, local-area network, wide-area network and public network traffic using IP-based communications. Ericsson will be responsible for technical collaboration, design, project management and the integration of its MD110 Converged Communication System.
When fully deployed the MD110 systems installed in RailNet will integrate fixed and mobile telephony, IP phones, PC soft phones, cordless phones, mobile phones, digital phones and IP gateways. Additionally, 120 existing MD110 systems will be upgraded to provide advanced facilities.
2005-09-09
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