Major rail order for Kapsch

Kapsch CarrierCom has won a further order worth US$56 million from the Polish railway company PKP for the design, delivery and installation of the GSM-R train radio system on the stretch of line E20 from Kunowice to Terespol. The 26-month project will be implemented in cooperation with local partner Torpol. Kapsch will install 114 base transceiver stations (BTS) at 57 locations. In addition, base station controllers (BSC), transcoder units (TCU) and packet control unit support nodes (PCUSN) will be supp
November 18, 2013 Read time: 1 min
81 Kapsch CarrierCom has won a further order worth US$56 million from the Polish railway company PKP for the design, delivery and installation of the GSM-R train radio system on the stretch of line E20 from Kunowice to Terespol.

The 26-month project will be implemented in cooperation with local partner Torpol. Kapsch will install 114 base transceiver stations (BTS) at 57 locations. In addition, base station controllers (BSC), transcoder units (TCU) and packet control unit support nodes (PCUSN) will be supplied and integrated.

Kapsch will be responsible for the design and implementation of the GSM-R project, while Torpol will provide infrastructure and a fibre-optic network.

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