Case Study: East Midlands Railway achieves faster, more reliable connectivity with Node4

East Midlands Railway quadruples bandwidth across 70% of stations with Node4

East Midlands Railway (EMR) faced the challenge of significantly increasing its network connectivity capacity to meet a Department for Transport obligation and support its digital transformation. Their legacy IT infrastructure was costly, unstable, and unable to provide the data connectivity required by modern passengers. EMR partnered with Node4 to upgrade this infrastructure and connect numerous green field station sites for the first time.

Node4 implemented a solution comprising a fully managed, secure SD-WAN across 104 sites, colocation space, and offsite backup services. This resulted in quadrupled bandwidth at most stations and 100% acceptable connectivity, up from 30%. Node4's solution also drove a significant reduction in the total cost of ownership, with connectivity costs dropping by thousands of pounds per year per station and an average cost reduction of 40%, enabling further customer-focused improvements.

East Midlands Railway