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Travel at the speed of life

Mainline and metro transit railways provide reliable, safe, on-time, journeys for millions of people and products every day - playing a critical role in our communities and our economies. Now, with a transformed, digital railway, you can deliver new and fully connected rail experiences. With a reliable, secure communications network at work for you, you can benefit from new levels of “connectedness” and automation – while reducing costs, improving efficiency and enhancing overall service. With powerful communications, you can achieve the full opportunities of industrial IoT and advanced analytics – helping you predictively maintain your operations, intelligently manage assets and automate intelligence. Discover how Nokia can help you transform your digital railway and see what it means to travel at the speed of life.

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Nokia and Deutsche Bahn collaborating on FRMCS/5G

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Enhancing automation in rail yards, depots and factories with LTE/5G private wireless

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Future rail with FRMCS/5G

Our subways, commuter railways and transit systems are at the center of connecting communities with work and life experiences every day. Whether we are on our way to work, catching a game or out on the town, we rely on today’s metro-urban railway systems to get us there. Yet the world’s metro-urban operators want to do better. They want to connect passengers to the people, things and places they love – more securely and more efficiently with better experiences. With the Future X architecture for railways powering your digital transformation, you can deliver better for your passengers and communities, you can keep up and see ahead, you can advance your business - and you can help every passenger love every ride as they travel at the speed of life.

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Metro-urban railway solutions - Global

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Taking metro rail’s backbone communications networks to the next level

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Train to Ground Communications – the next level

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Train-to-ground communications for urban and metro rail

Mainline railways uniquely connect passengers with both countryside and urban metropolis alike – bringing us new adventures and rich, visual experiences across the miles. Striving to deliver excellence in every passenger journey, today’s railways - with the Future X architecture - can effectively and efficiently transform, at all levels. Secure, safe, on-time and fully connected, the new mainline journey is unique, shared and upgraded. It is greener and closer than ever to the passenger’s point of departure and destination, whether urban or rural. All aboard. It’s time to travel at the speed of life.

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Understanding FRMCS and how it can be the foundation for railway digitalization

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Is your backbone network ready for FRMCS?

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Paving the way to FRMCS

Railways are without a doubt the greenest form of freight transport available, and one of the most cost effective – with nearly half of USA freight moved by railways, for example. This signals an incredible opportunity for railways around the globe to compete, offering enterprises unprecedented value, connecting goods to their customers with end-to-end reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and security. The Future X architecture is ready to help you transform your communications and operations, building integrated journeys from departure to destination and beyond. With advanced, end-to-end communications and analytics, you can offer innovative new freight services that exceed your customer’s expectations – throughout the journey. Offer faster, more connected, freight services that help your business travel at the speed of life.

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FRMCS-ready, multiservice backbone network

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Protect railway infrastructure with robust railway communications network security

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How do you connect communications across 22,000 miles of railways?

Nokia Bell Labs Future X for industries architecture

The Future X architecture harnesses technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things, edge computing, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and high-performance networking - including 5G - to drive dramatic productivity improvements across a wide range of industrial sectors.

With the Future X architecture for railways, you can begin a digital transformation that leads to lower operational costs, faster time to delivery for freight and a better customer experience for your passengers.

Connect people, sensors, trains, video monitors and automated train control systems with the highest security and reliability
Get the fast response times you need to support safety equipment, next-generation signaling, IoT applications and video analytics
Increase network capacity where it's needed to address passenger surges, rush-hour congestion or high demand for on-board connectivity
Use data processing and analytics systems to boost efficiency or enable new services
Create value with open platforms that can apply analytics, operational systems and automation to any rail application

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Discover our solutions for the railway industry

IoT and Analytics
Discover how to use the latest IoT and analytics innovations to maintain railways predictively, automate remote stations, improve safety and agility and more

Railroad crossing safety
Enhance rail crossing safety and operation with advanced analytics

Scene Analytics
Reduce cost and risk with analytics that proactively monitor CCTV and IoT streams

IMPACT IoT platform

Unlock competitive growth with new services and applications for the Internet of Things

Integrated Operations Center

Streamline operations, improve situational awareness and shorten response times by gaining real-time visibility of your assets and services

Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform

Reduce costs and speed service delivery by using SDN to create more responsive and efficient cloud networks

Virtualized Multi-access Edge Computing (vMEC)

Provide the ultra-low latency your business-critical applications demand with platforms that process data at the mobile network edge

Embracing predictive maintenance in urban railways

Embrace predictive maintenance by harnessing the agility, flexibility, security and scalability of SD-WAN to support pervasive IoT deployment

SD-WAN for railways White paper

GSM–Railway

Ensure safe and reliable operations with an end-to-end GSM-R solution that supports all your voice and data communications needs

Mission-critical transmission networks for railways

Support critical applications and new passenger services with state-of-the-art transmission networks based on IP, optical and microwave technologies

FRMCS

Transform your railway network and prepare to take advantage of 5G with the ultra-safe, cost effective, passenger-pleasing Future Railway Mobile Communications System

Integrated Nokia industrial user equipment

In railyards and along the tracks, handhelds, workpads, dongles and routers must withstand rain and snow, heat and cold. Nokia Industrial ruggedized devices enable people to communicate and automated vehicles to be connected.

Train to Ground

Resilient, secure broadband communications for urban/metro rail

Managed Services for Railways Brochure

Group Communications

Powering critical communications for split-second decision making