Tadiran Telecom delivers €2 million communications solution to Irish Rail
Source: solokay.blogspot.com
Tadiran Teleco.®, a leading
global IP business telephony and communications supplier, today announced
the successful completion of another project with Irish Rail for the
Dublin Area Rapid Transport (DART) system and its Central Train Control
(CTC) Center. The DART project follows a successful relationship between
Irish Rail and Tadiran in which Tadiran supplied a QSIG standard
signaling protocol network of over 200 Cora.® IPx 500 and Coral FlexiCom PBX
systems for the Irish Rail’s Emergency Lineside Systems. The projects
were delivered through Tadiran’s partner in Ireland, Diacom Computer
Telephony. The total value of the contracts with Irish Rail is in excess
of €2 million.
The overall system concept was conceived with significant design input
from the Irish Rail Signalling and Telecoms Group. The DART line
supports 30 stations connected to the Central Train Control Center. Diacom
installed 30 Coral IPx 500 systems, which are networked to a duplicated
redundant Coral FlexiCom 5000 system. The CTC, which is located in
Connolly station in Dublin, provides services to each station to support
administration telephony and passenger help points, including a passenger
hot line and passenger booking offices.
Rinaldo Paolozzi, Head of Telecoms New Projects with Irish Rail said,
"Tadiran Coral systems were selected because of their reliability and
flexibility. In a rail network environment these are critical
requirements and the Coral systems have a proven track record in this respect."
As part of the Transport 21 plan initiated by the Irish Government to
address Ireland’s infrastructural requirements for the 21st century,
Tadiran and Diacom were selected to provide Irish Rail with the
telecommunications solution to support the new nationwide automated level
crossing system. Transport 21 is the capital investment framework through
which the transport system in Ireland will be developed over the period
2006 to 2015. This framework will address the twin challenges of past
investment backlogs and continuing growth in transport demand. The projects
and programs that make up Transport 21 will aim to increase
accessibility, ensure sustainability, expand capacity, increase use and enhance
the quality of the Irish railroad system. Tadiran will supply a redundant
Coral FlexiCom 6000 system with fully duplicated fiber remote shelves
to service over 1,000 emergency level crossing telephones. A particular
feature of the system is the level crossing telephones, which
incorporate a self-test module and are vandal resistant.
"Our success with Irish Rail, as well as many other rail projects
including very large contracts in India, China and Russia are based on
Tadiran’s ability to provide products that are robust and flexible. Rail
networks require a telephone system that meets very precise and strict
operational and safety standards," said Zeev Aviv, VP of Sales and
Marketing at Tadiran Telecom. "We are successful in various vertical markets
including transportation, healthcare, energy infrastructure, finance,
and others because our products are well designed, allowing maximum
flexibility and enabling us to be very responsive to the market."
Tadiran’s telephony solutions have already been deployed in other
transportation projects in China, including Dalian International, Huhhot,
Tianjin, Wuhan, Zhenzhou, Hainan Phoenix and Wuxi airports, the internal
Metro Express in Beijing airport, and subway numbers 5 and 4,
especially built for the Beijing Olympic Games.
