This marks another milestone for Nokia Siemens Networks in GSM-R segment after the recent contracts for Wuhan-Guangzhou Linethe longest high-speed railway in the world and for Hefei-Nanjing LineChinas first passenger-dedicated line for commercial use.
The 360km Hefei-Wuhan Line has 14 stations, passes through Anhui and Hubei provinces. This line will be operational by early 2009.
Chinas railway construction is experiencing an unprecedented leap forward. Nokia Siemens Networks is striving to provide world class GSM-R system and solutions so as to support secure operation, high quality service and efficient railway transportation for Hefei-Wuhan Line., said Mr. Zhang Zhiqiang, head of the Greater China Region of Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks is a pioneer of GSM-R technology, with Siemens researching and creating the GSM-R standard starting in the early 1990s.The worlds earliest three GSM-R trial networks and the first commercial network are all supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks.
In China, Nokia Siemens Networks is the leader of GSM-R systems.and has undertaken five of the total seven GSM-R passenger-dedicated line projects in China that are under construction or have been put into operation. The notable one is the Beijing-Tianjin Railway for Beijing 2008 Sport Games which is the first high-speed railway with the maximum speed of 350km/h. Besides, Nokia Siemens Networks is the exclusive provider of Chinese GSM-R intelligent network and HLRi systems. The GSM-R core network provided by Nokia Siemens Networks will serve the main railway lines and bear over 50% of the wireless communication traffic on Chinese railways. To date Nokia Siemens Networks has deployed 20 GSM-R networks in 14 countries serving 50,000km of railways, making it the worlds leading GSM-R vendor in both number of commercial networks and length of operated GSM-R lines.
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
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[Source: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
