Indian Railways Adopts Tadiran’s Softswitch Communications Solution

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Tadiran Telecom Deploys Softswitch Communications Solution in South Central Railways...

Tadiran Telecom, global IP business telephony and communications supplier, has been selected to provide Softswitch communications solution to the Indian Railways.

A part of an overall communications system modernization plan, South Central Railway (SCR) selected the all new Sea Softswitch, which meets all of SCR's first-time requirements for redundancy, fault tolerance, central administration and billing. This large project includes the important Hubli and Vijayawada divisions, and spans 85 stations over 200 kilometers.

For BPL Telecom, one of Tadiran's business partners in India, it was clear that the only solution was the Sea Softswitch. A cluster of three IP-based Sea Softswitch servers are at the core of the project, managing the entire communications system. Located in three geographically dispersed sites, each Sea Softswitch server provides redundancy and fault tolerance for the other servers.

Tadiran is involved in many railway projects around th

e world and we understand the specific communication needs of this market segment, said Zeev Aviv, Acting president and CEO of Tadiran Telecom. As a leading player in Indian Railways we are especially happy to be the first to introduce a VoIP and Softswitch-based solution to this market. We will continue to bring cutting edge and innovative technologies to this industry and are confident that our focus on railways will lead to many more projects of this kind in the future.

The final phase of installation has been completed and this project is now in the process of being deployed. The project incorporates other Tadiran systems, including a FlexiCom 5000 system which functions as the main hub for trunks and connects to the other IP systems, ten IPx 500 units deployed at larger stations, and FXS/SIP boxes located in the smaller stations. All these systems are maintained by a cluster of geographically dispersed, yet fully redundant, Sea Softswitch servers allowing for highly dep