Safer trains and staying connected on the beach
You might not think that Nortel is in the business of making high-speed rail safer, but that’s what Nortel announced yesterday in one of several customer win announcements released.
If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you’re probably not that familiar with GSM-R technology. As its name indicates, GSM-R is built on the GSM wireless standard popular around the world. But while GSM is a legacy wireless standard soon to be replaced with newer 3G and 4G technologies, GSM-R is a relatively new standard specifically targeted to railway networks (more detail here).
The GSM-R standard is a digital replacement for today’s hodge-podge of mostly incompatible analogue railway …
