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Start getting telecoms ready for the transition to FRMCS and AI era

Summary

Start getting telecoms ready for the transition to FRMCS and AI era
Railway organizations are facing intense challenges from rapid digitalization. The right results can deliver essential improvements — including more efficient operations, greater train control safety, and better customer service and passenger experience. In addition, AI capabilities hold out the promise of proactive maintenance, as well as faster responses to events for rolling stock and crew. The foundation for gaining these improvements lies in a robust, extended, flexible and high-performance telecom system, which provides vital connectivity from an operation and control center to trackside to the train. This communications network is built out of three major technologies — FRMCS, IP/MPLS and DWDM — which are capable of transporting future applications.

However, railway organizations must also consider the life cycles of their specific applications, which are typically longer than those in IT — and may raise key constraints. For instance, GSM-R must run until 2032, at least, in most countries. For many rail organizations, their current telecom network is becoming obsolete because it’s based on SDH (or even MPLS-TP). So, they need to rapidly develop a strategy that addresses the urgency of technology obsolescence, while combining a long-term vision for creating a telecom network that’s a reliable foundation for railway digitalization.

Watch this webinar and hear industry experts explain how to smoothly migrate your railway telecom infrastructure, while considering the life cycle of existing applications.
 

Topics covered

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Learn how railways can evolve their telecoms to maintain safe operations today while preparing for the future

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Discover the impact of technology evolution on operations and workforce, with insights from a railway operator, an international consultant and a technology leader

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Gain expert views concerning strategies for overcoming technology challenges

 

Speakers

Anne-Marie Ntibazonkiza

Network Infrastructure Team Coordinator
Infrabel

 

Having trained as an industrial engineer in electromechanics, Anne-Marie has always been passionate about telecommunications. She worked for 8 years at Colt Telecom where she learned to master SDH, PDH, and DSL technologies. In 2010, she joined Infrabel where she held various Project Management and team management positions. First for the deployment of a DWDM network, then an IP/MPLS network. Since 2024, she has been working specifically on GSM-R and the migration of these services to an IP/MPLS network.

Zineb El Aissaoui

Telecom Lead for Engineering and Design in Railways
Egis Rail

 

Zineb EL AISSAOUI is Telecom Design Lead for Railways projects at Egis, where she leads engineering activities related to telecom systems for railway projects. Zineb is involved in several National and International projects where she is responsible of ensuring that telecom systems meet the technical specifications, standards, and safety requirements specific to the railway industry. With over 10 years of experience in the Railway Transport sector, Zineb has held key roles, including System Engineer at Thales, where she worked on the design and build of telecom systems within a high-speed railway project. She then moved on to serve as Telecom Engineer at Sintra, where she was involved in the design of telecom systems for multi railway projects covering high speed and conventional Networks.

Benoît Leridon

Transportation Segment Leader
Nokia

 

Benoît Leridon is the Transportation Segment Leader for Network Infrastructure at Nokia where he is responsible for global business development targeting transportation verticals. Benoît has 25 years of telecom pre-sales background covering enterprise and carrier markets for data, and voice solutions, and joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2010 after holding different pre-sales management positions in companies such as Wellfleet, Bay Networks and Nortel.

 

Moderator

 

Overview

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Date: 2025-03-19

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Time: On-demand

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Duration: 60 Minutes

 

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