Rail OT Cloud Networking

Our Data Center Fabric solution seamlessly connects your operational technology to the cloud to help you digitalize and automate your railway operations. Transform your railway network into a data-driven powerhouse that enhances operational performance and delivers smoother journeys for your passengers.

Rail operational technology (OT) cloud is a dedicated compute pool that hosts your mission-critical OT applications and data in on-premises facilities such as your data center.

Applications such as SCADA, FRMCS core, interlocking and digital signaling are increasingly being deployed in an OT cloud environment. These applications consume critical, time-sensitive data generated and collected by IoT devices and other intelligent assets to enable real-time situation awareness, train control and automation.

Bringing physical and OT assets together to create adaptive digital railways

A rail OT cloud can play an integral part in helping you build an adaptive digital railway that quickly and confidently responds to challenges created by changing business and operation needs, disruptive weather events and evolving digital ecosystems. 

Nokia rail OT cloud networking lets you realize your digitalization ambitions with an open, automated data center fabric that reliably connects physical assets such as interlocking, SCADA remote terminal units (RTUs), switch controllers and trackside IoT sensors to application software in the OT cloud. It extends mission-critical networking from your IP/MPLS backbone core network and access networks—train-to-ground, trackside and station—to the OT cloud data center fabric.

The data center fabric is a key component of mission-critical railway communications