Case Study: Large Rail Operator Company achieves resilient next-generation rail communications with Ciena

Large Rail Operator Company - Customer Case Study

Large Rail Operator Company, a regional rail operator in Australasia, needed to modernize critical communications across its main trunk line to replace legacy infrastructure from the 1980s and improve resilience in harsh, remote, and disaster-prone conditions. Ciena supported the upgrade with tailored networking equipment and services to bring rail signaling into the twenty-first century.

Ciena implemented an Ethernet Ring Protection network with centralized management and near zero-touch commissioning, dividing the network into resilient rings with redundant paths for automated rerouting and fault handling. The result was an always-on, remotely manageable communications system with significantly increased capacity for future growth, reduced maintenance effort in remote locations, and improved worker safety with minimal downtime.