Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today showcased a number of innovative solutions under the theme of "Leading New ICT, Building a Better Connected Railway" at Asia Pacific Rail 2016, which began yesterday and ends tomorrow in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Norman Frisch, Chairman of the eLTE Industry Alliance and Marketing Director of the Transport Sector of Huawei's Enterprise Business Group, delivered an opening plenary keynote, saying "Urbanization and globalization are causing a dramatic increase in demands for land transportation. Railway operators around the world are now more concerned than ever about how to take advantage of innovative ICT solutions to maximize their transport capacities and build differentiated competitive advantages based on existing railway networks and infrastructure. Against this backdrop, Huawei has developed a portfolio of solutions to help customers build digital railway lines and digital urban rail transit systems. These solutions cater to the needs of different scenarios and consist of a multitude of sub-solutions, including Railway Operational Communication solution, Agile Station solution, Fusion Operations Control Center (OCC) solution, Digital Train solution, Urban Rail Transit LTE-M solution, and Urban Rail Data Communication System (DCS) solution. These solutions allow close connection and interaction between people, vehicles, and rail, helping customers build better connected railway services that are safe, efficient, and convenient. "

Norman Frisch, Chairman of the eLTE Industry Alliance and Marketing Director of the Transport Sector of Huawei's Enterprise Business Group

Railway Operational Communication Solution

Huawei uses a variety of technologies, including GSM-R, Hybrid MSTP, and multi-service broadband access, to help the railway industry build a highly reliable, flexible, and evolvable railway communications network. The solution possesses the most comprehensive redundancy design in the industry for network entities (NEs), coupled with multiple Huawei proprietary technologies and protection mechanisms, ensuring 99.999% system reliability. Six access methods are used to implement reliable communication along railway lines, with comprehensive broadband access and backhaul for more than a dozen railway services, ensuring operational safety and efficiency. GSM-R supports smooth evolution to LTE-R, and Hybrid MSTP supports smooth evolution to an all-IP transmission network, protecting customers' investments. The Railway Operational Communication solution has been deployed in a number of projects around the world, including the GSM-R modernization project of Deutsche Bahn (DB) in Northern Germany, Sochi High-speed Railway project in Russia, PRASA GSM-R project in South Africa, and EKB High-speed Railway project in Turkey, helping railway operators build railway operational communication networks that are highly reliable, flexible, and evolvable.

Fusion OCC Solution

Competition from other transport methods, such as highway and civil aviation, are forcing the railway industry to transform to meet the demands of modern logistics. Huawei Fusion OCC solution helps customers build cloud-based high-performance computing platforms capable of processing extremely large numbers of concurrent service requests. The solution adopts a series of innovative technologies, including high-performance service platform, congestion-free convergent network, and dual-active data center, to support continuous service integration and reliable disaster redundancy. In a typical deployment of the Fusion OCC solution for China Railway Corporation (CSR), a dual-active passenger ticket marketing center was established using Huawei's FusionServer E9000, a new-generation blade server that integrates computing, storage, switching, and management subsystems to form a powerful converged infrastructure platform. The solution increased the ticket data query and processing speed of the booking platform by 75 times, and the new booking platform is able to sell up to 10 million tickets online a day.

Agile Station Solution

By combining IT and automation technologies, the Agile Station solution enables fine-grained management of production activities in stations, optimizes the scheduling of maintenance work, improves the maintenance productivity of railway stations, supports visualized management, and reduces maintenance time by 20 percent. Various mobile terminals can be used for production activities in stations. The use of a uniform mobile office client improves work efficiency and resource utilization. A wide array of measures, including wireless positioning, mobility in work, agile network, and unified platform, are used to build an IT-enabled platform to implement fine-grained management of rolling stock depots and unleash the full productivity potential of rolling stock depots.

Digital Train Solution

In the mobile Internet era, the demands for fast onboard Internet access are growing rapidly. Railway operators need to improve passengers' travel experience by providing them convenient network access during their journeys. Huawei Digital Train Solution adopts a number of measures, including broadband train-to-ground reliable backhaul, high-density Wi-Fi coverage, and onboard open platforms. The solution enables railway operators to provide rich travel experience to passengers and implement refined operation.

Digital Urban Rail LTE-M Solution

Around the world, urbanization has made traffic congestions more serious than ever. City administrators have come to realize the importance of urban rail transit as a means of fast, safe, and environmentally friendly public transportation. Wireless communications is the basis of modern urban rail transportation service. The fast development and safe operation of urban rail system depend on reliable wireless communications service.

The Digital Urban Rail LTE-M solution helps customers build LTE-enabled urban rail systems. The solution supports real-time transmission of passenger information service, fast response to emergency situations, and safe train operations. The solution provides a series of innovative urban rail transit services, including a hyper-bandwidth train-to-ground communications platform, a 9-leveled QoS mechanism that assures zero interruption for mission-critical services, and a unified network that bears multiple services, such as communication-based train control (CBTC), passenger information system (PIS), trunking, and Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV). The solution has helped Zhengzhou Metro and the Addis Ababa light rail in Ethiopia simplify their Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and cut down on operational costs.

Huawei's booth at Asia Pacific Rail 2016 is located at F05. To coincide with Asia Pacific Rail, Huawei also holds the Asia Pacific Railway Summit 2016. For more information, please visit: http://enterprise.huawei.com/topic/asiapacificrail2016/index.html