Indra to modernise Chilean railway communications

As part of its modernisation of over 550 km of railways, Chilean railroad company, Grupo EFE, has awarded Indra a ten-year, US$7.8 million (€6.9 million) contract for the supply, installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of a multiservice Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) communications network. The project, on one of the highest-traffic areas of the Chilean railway, includes the installation of the MPLS network equipment and installation and repair of overhead fibre op
June 7, 2016 Read time: 1 min
As part of its modernisation of over 550 km of railways, Chilean railroad company, Grupo EFE, has awarded 509 Indra a ten-year, US$7.8 million (€6.9 million) contract for the supply, installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of a multiservice Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) communications network.

The project, on one of the highest-traffic areas of the Chilean railway, includes the installation of the MPLS network equipment and installation and repair of overhead fibre optics and installation, configuration and testing of the MPLS network's management and monitoring systems. These systems allow for implementing proactive actions in response to situations that may affect the network, reducing the possibility of failures and achieving service availability of close to 100 per cent.

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