Andrew chosen for multi-year communications upgrade to German high speed train ICE
(Business News, 02 Jun 2008 )
Andrew, the CommScope, Inc. division in communications products and systems, has won a multi-year contract for communications systems that will provide improved wireless coverage inside Deutsche Bahn AG’s high speed train ICE in Germany.
Andrew in-train repeaters will be installed in all 250 ICE train sets covering nearly 1,500 carriages—the majority of the ICE fleet—that will feature high quality, high-availability mobile telephony signal coverage for passengers and official rail communications. The project, which began this month and is scheduled for completion in 2010, is a common project between Deutsche Bahn and the German mobile network operators T-Mobile, Vodafone, the E-Plus Group and O2.
The Andrew repeater system will support five separate GSM networks, covering the four operators plus the rail system’s communications network, in the GSM-900, GSM-1800 and GSM-R bands. The company has previously supported Deutsche Bahn in providing in-train coverage systems on portions of the ICE system since 2002.
