Nokia Siemens Networks provides GSM-Railway system in China

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to implement GSM-R in the newly commissioned Hefei-Wuhan passenger-dedicated line. This line is located in the eastern section of Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu corridor and will encourage regional economic and cultural communication between the midwest China and the eastern coast.

This marks another milestone for Nokia Siemens Networks in GSM-R segment after the recent contracts for Wuhan-Guangzhou Line—the longest high-speed railway in the world and for Hefei-Nanjing Line—China’s first passenger-dedicated line for commercial use.

The 360km Hefei-Wuhan Line has 14 stations, passes through Anhui and Hubei provinces. This line will be operational by early 2009.

Nokia Siemens Networks is a pioneer of GSM-R technology, with Siemens researching and creating the GSM-R standard starting in the early 1990s.The world’s earliest three GSM-R trial networks and the first commercial network are all supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks.

In China, Nokia Siemens Networks is the leader of GSM-R systems and has undertaken five of the total seven GSM-R passenger-dedicated line projects in China that are under construction or have been put into operation. The notable one is the Beijing-Tianjin Railway for Beijing 2008 Sport Games which is the first high-speed railway with the maximum speed of 350km/h.