ASIA: Taiwanese mission-critical networking company Nexcom and Japanese 5G industrial communications supplier Hytec Inter are collaborating to offer rail operators uninterrupted connectivity, including in tunnels and remote areas and with rapid handovers between fragmented public and private networks.
This brings together Nexcom’s ISA 141 dual 5G onboard equipment and Hytec Inter’s private 5G system, with seamless handover between networks through dual SIM dual active operation. It is designed as a scalable platform for deployment across all rail environments from high speed to metro, supporting safety-critical control, real-time monitoring and operational communications within a single physical network.
Hytec Inter private 5G networking equipment is used where public networks are not available.
Announcing the collaboration on March 4, the companies said legacy rail communication architectures are difficult to scale and maintain under evolving requirements including the need to support communications-based train control and prepare for the transition towards FRMCS.
‘Rail communications are moving beyond coverage alone toward deterministic, always-on connectivity,’ said Allan Chiu, VP of Network & Communication Solutions at Nexcom. ‘By deploying dual 5G onboard connectivity, this solution provides a practical foundation for mission-critical rail systems today and future FRMCS evolution.’
Asao Norihito, President & CEO at Hytec Inter, said ‘in critical rail infrastructure, every network transition represents a potential point of failure. Our joint solution is built to eliminate those gaps by enabling mission-critical services to operate on a unified 5G infrastructure engineered for uninterrupted performance and predictable behaviour.’
