Transportation

The JumboSwitch offers a unique blend of popular Ethernet and legacy interfaces to provide an integrated, cost-effective and reliable set of network solutions for the transportation industry. Most applications fall under three basic categories: Light Rail, Railroads & Heavy Rail and Traffic Control.

Light Rail:
In light rail and metro rail systems, reliable communications for Network Operation Centers-to-Station (NOC) and Station-to-Station applications are critical to help ensure passenger safety and convenience. In this application, the JumboSwitch provides a reliable communications backbone for applications such as public address systems, ticket vending machines, video surveillance and security systems. The JumboSwitch also natively supports delay-sensitive, mission-critical control and signaling applications traditionally served by separate TDM-based products.

Railroads & Heavy Rail:
Critical applications for heavy rail systems include: voice, video, data, and real time information between Network Operation Centers (NOC), trains and stations. The JumboSwitch is a viable networking solution because it supports real time signaling and central network management for electronic interlocking systems required in the NOC. In many instances the JumboSwitch Gigabit Ethernet is used as a backbone for extending Serial, Ethernet and hundreds of encoded (e.g. MPEG 2) video streams over “long reach” 1000Base-SX/LX links spanning hundreds of kilometers. Comprehensive centralized network management is provided by TCView®.

Traffic Control & Management:
The JumboSwitch is often used to provide the communications transport for advanced traffic management systems (ATMS) in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). In most cases, these systems are deployed at intersections or used for communications between signal management systems to coordinate operation of traffic signals.

Applications Diagrams