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Leading New ICT Building A Smart Urban Rail 2017 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Bantian, Longgang District Shenzhen518129, P. R. China Tel:+86-755-28780808 Huawei Digital Urban Rail Solution Digital Urban Rail Solution LTE-M Solution 04 Next-Generation DCS Solution 10 Urban Rail Cloud Solution 15 Huawei Digital Urban Rail Solution Huawei Digital Urban Rail Solution Huawei LTE-M Solution for Urban Rail Huawei and Alstom the Completed World’s Huawei Digital Urban Rail LTE-M Solution First CBTC over LTE Live Pilot On June 29th, 2015, Huawei and Alstom, one of the world’s leading energy solutions and transport companies, announced the successful completion of the world’s first live pilot test of 4G LTE multi-services based on Communications- based Train Control (CBTC), a railway signalling system based on wireless ground-to-train CBTC PIS CCTV Dispatching communication. The successful pilot, which CURRENT STATUS IN URBAN RAIL covered the unified multi-service capabilities TV Wall ATS Server Terminal In recent years, public Wi-Fi access points have become a OCC of several systems including CBTC, Passenger popular commodity in urban areas. Due to the explosive growth Information System (PIS), and closed-circuit in use of multimedia devices like smart phones, tablets and NMS LTE CN television (CCTV), marks a major step forward in notebooks, the demand on services of these devices in crowded the LTE commercialization of CBTC services. Line/Station Section/Depot Station places such as metro stations has dramatically increased. Huge BBU numbers of Wi-Fi devices on the platforms and in the trains RRU create chances of interference with Wi-Fi networks, which TAU TAU Alstom is the world’s first train manufacturer to integrate LTE 4G into its signalling system solution, the Urbalis Fluence CBTC Train AR IPC PIS AP TCMS solution, which greatly improves the suitability of eLTE, providing a converged ground-to-train wireless communication network Terminal When the CBTC system uses Wi-Fi technology to implement for metro operations. The LTE pilot project has been launched after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between train-to-ground communication, the external interference from Huawei and Alstom in April 2014. The two parties agreed Huawei would contribute the eLTE infrastructure for the pilot and 2.4G frequency band may probably force running trains to stop optimizing the network planning to meet requirements for broadband data services, and mission critical voice trunking services. unexpectedly. use of dedicated-frequency LTE networks and technologies Alstom provided the train and LTE onboard technology. The pilot was carried out at Alstom’s test track near Valenciennes in France. Besides, a Wi-Fi AP's coverage range is only 219 yds (200m). such as Interference Rejection Combining (IRC) and Inter-Cell Trains moving at a high speed may experience frequent wireless Interference Coordination (ICIC) enhances the network’s anti- handovers with long latency and high packet losses, which interference capability. When encountering interference, the During the pilot, Huawei and Alstom jointly conducted several degrades passengers’ experience in enjoying the onboard eLTE network can still have available bandwidth to provide tests, including laboratory and static test on trains, dynamic test on passenger information and entertainment services. services with guaranteed QoS, thereby ensuring the reliability of metro tracks, and testing of eLTE Multi-Services capabilities. Huawei mission critical services. On the other hand, services for urban rail operation and provided its Digital Urban Rail LTE-M Solution with a focus on management keep growing in number and diversity. However, Huawei LTE-M Solution is able to deliver an excellent multimedia applications, voice trunking dispatching, and broadband communication networks are deployed separately for service performance on high-speed trains. The LTE train-to-ground data services based on 4G LTE standards to satisfy growing demands systems, which results in high costs and complex Operation and communication system supports 80 Mbit/s throughput for from the rail industry. Maintenance (O&M). trains traveling at speeds as high as 268 mph (431 km/h). This solution enables metro operators to ensure safe train operations HUAWEI LTE-M SOLUTION, By constructing a unified bearer network for data services, including CBTC, trunking, PIS and CCTV, this solution helps by leveraging eLTE-based CBTC train signals while providing HELPS BUILD A SMART RAIL mission critical voice trunking dispatching and broadband data customers improve operating efficiency and reduce both Huawei offers Digital Urban Rail LTE-M Solution (“Huawei services such as live video streaming of CCTV images and Passenger network construction and O&M costs. By providing long- LTE-M Solution”) for the urban rail industry to build a smart rail. Information System. With the solution, metro operators are able distance wireless coverage along rail lines, the solution to effectively reduce operation and maintenance costs as well as Based on the 4G LTE technology, Huawei LTE-M Solution helps dramatically reduces the number of devices that are needed quickly obtain passenger information, therefore greatly improving solving the existing issues in urban rail networks and improves in complex environments such as tunnels. By implementing the serviceability of trains. operation efficiency through innovative designs, such as the a unified network management system for network and redundant dual-network, anti-interference design, guaranteed 9-level QoS mechanism, long-distance wireless coverage and Huawei aims to help customers build a smart rail with a reliable design. broadband train-to-ground communication network that greatly improves the operation efficiency and brings better Huawei LTE-M Solution ensures reliable train-to-ground experience for passengers, while reducing the O&M costs of communication using a dual-network architecture and rail. redundancy design at the system, device and board levels. The igital Urban Rail Solution D 4 5 Huawei Digital Urban Rail Solution Huawei Digital Urban Rail Solution Huawei Deployed Africa’s First Smart eLTE Urban Rail Huawei Completed Proof of Concept on Amsterdam Metro Communications System in Ethiopia BACKGROUND Addis Ababa, as the capital city of Ethiopia and hub for the economy and transportation, has high population density and on minibuses that offered infrequent service, had long queues and did not have stations. To address this, the Ethiopian government invested US$475 million on the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit project, which was constructed by China Eryuan Engineering Group (CREEC) and has been in commercial operation since September 21, 2015. of Concept (PoC) with Amsterdam Metro. KPN opened the The project’s first phase consisted of rolling out the 31 BACKGROUND kilometers South-North and East-West rail lines with a control Since 1997, the Amsterdam metro system consists of four metro dedicated 2.6GHz frequency band for the test, and Huawei LTE-M center and 39 stations. Communication plays an important routes, including Route 50, Route 51, Route 53 and Route 54. With Solution was used to transport the real time video stream of the role to ensure effective services and monitoring of operations 52 stations in the network, the metro serves major areas within surveillance cameras to the driver’s cabin of the train. The PoC on throughout the entire rail system. Ethiopian Railways Amsterdam, as well as the surrounding towns of Amstelveen, Corporation (ERC) and CREEC had stringent requirements for · Its ultra-wideband technology, which enables wireless Diemen and Ouder-Amstel. The North-South Line Route 52 (Noord- During the lab test, QoS was the most important feature to be dispatching and various other services, including voice the implementation of the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit’s tested. By classifying priorities for different services (i.e. 64Kb/s communications system and needed a system that provides trunking and single-network ticketing data management, constant bit rate, HD video stream and Best Effort data), the eLTE high end-to-end performance and high levels of reliability and thereby reducing the need for trackside devices and lowering operation by 2017. stability. maintenance costs. · Its nine-level hierarchical quality of service technology, with these expectations, which gave the green lights for the second INTEGRATED DIGITAL RAIL SOLUTION which ensures critical real-time services designed to meet the step of the project. DESIGNED FOR ADDIS ABABA LIGHT RAIL demands of real-time wireless big data transmissions, such as Under the project, Huawei provided several of the key those resulting from the ticketing system, while supporting technologies forming its Digital Urban Rail Solution, including concurrent voice dispatching and data transmissions. the existing surveillance cameras on the platform were connected end-to-end LTE-M Solution and related communication systems. · Its utilization of LTE cell technology to provide a wireless to the eLTE network, while a laptop was connected to the customer The demand for these new technologies is getting higher network that covers 1,200 meters with just one cellular-based premises equipment (CPE). The laptop/CPE was placed inside the due to the vast increase of video services usage in light eLTE cell. The structure requires just four baseband units and rail transit networks. That includes the surveillance system, nine radio remote units.