Kapsch CarrierCom and Hungary’s MVM OVIT National Power Line Company equipped the Hungarian railway network with the GSM-R technology. The system includes a geo-redundant, state-of-the-art Release 4 core network and an access network with the newest, railway-specific base station subsystem, covering 900 track kilometers of which 300 km have been handed over to the Hungarian railways and Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút Zrt. (GYSEV Zrt.) on December 18.
The network stability tests of the first section of the GSM-R network installed for Hungarian State Railways and GYSEV Zrt. have been closed successfully. The network is also certified to support ETCS Level 2 traffic.
The project for the Hungarian state holding company NISZ Zrt. started in 2013 and has a value of EUR 46 million. “With the successful installation of GSM-R technology and today’s handover of around 300 km of the network, we not only finished phase five, but also achieved a very important milestone of this complex project”, Kari Kapsch, CEO of Kapsch CarrierCom said.
The implementation of the GSM-R technology in Hungary is of great significance since three of the most important pan-European rail corridors run through the country. The interoperability of the safety systems is therefore of the highest priority for a smooth operability of international railway transportation.
“We are happy, that this important step of the project is finished. It’s a great optimization of the Hungarian rail network as well as of the trans-European rail traffic,” László Felkai, State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior said, during the GSM-R project presentation on December 18.
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