Industrial networking technologies

When you get onboard a modern train today with sleek carriage construction and high tech solar glass, little do you realize that it that you have entered. Well to be more precise a Faraday Cage, this in essence blocks the majority of Wireless signals coming in or out of the carriage, so in today’s age of high speed broadband internet also walked into a bit of a desert, until now. Korenix UK has been awarded a contract for the supply of Korenix PoE 4706 Ethernet switches to Nomad Digital Rail (NDR), a UK-based provider of specialist mobile networks, for use on the UK West coast Mainline passenger trains. The benefit for the passengers is a reliable and seamless broadband connection (>6MB/s bi-directional) to the Internet throughout a train journey even through tunnels! The NDR system works by flooding rail carriages with a wireless signal that allows passengers to connect to the Internet Passengers can use any laptop or PDA fitted with a standard WiFi adapter (IEEE802.11b/g). To ensure a reliable service, the NDR system includes a number of features, including seamless choosing between the best of four different backhaul data networks on a second by second basis, ensuring continuity of connection to the train and the Internet.