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Nortel Awarded GSM-R Contract for Algerian Wireless Railway Communications

July 22, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS

 
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Nortel was selected to provide wireless communications with its Global System for Mobile Communications - Railway (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 Réalisation des Investissements Ferroviaires (ANESRIF) to improve safety and increase average train speeds to reduce travel times while reducing operational costs, according to Nortel.

ANESRIF is managing the modernization of the Algerian railway system including the construction of new railway lines, signaling systems and other railway equipment.

The introduction of GSM-R on the two new railway lines at Tabia-Mecheria and Bordj Bouarreridj - M'Sila will extend the first GSM-R network awarded to Nortel in 2006 for the El Gourzi-Touggourt line in Eastern Algeria.

The new lines are managed by Algeria's Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviares (SNTF).

GSM-R is part of the new European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) standard and carries the signalling information directly to the train driver.

Source: Nortel.

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