H3C Goes Further to Help Build Information Systems for China’s Rail Transit Industry

Hangzhou, 21 July 2008 — H3C Technologies, one of the world’s leading IP technology and solution providers, has signed a cooperative agreement with the rail transit lab of Beijing Jiaotong University. According to the agreement, H3C’s wired and wireless networking devices will be installed in the rail transit lab for use in the research of advanced information systems for the rail industry, such as data communication systems (DCS) and communication-based train control (CBTC) systems. Meanwhile, H3C’s IP-based surveillance and storage products will be used in developing passenger information systems (PIS) for research into new vehicular onboard monitoring systems.

With wide-spread deployments in key cities all over China including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing, Taipei, and Hong Kong, the rail transit industry is developing very fast, which requires building more advanced information systems. Taking the specific application environment into account, H3C developed its WHFT technology striving for zero packet loss during an upgrade shift to more sophisticated systems. Other H3C technologies and design concepts that can be helpful to the rail transit lab are dual network designs, Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) backbone network architectures, and redundant wireless switching which guarantee 99.9999% reliability of the lab’s CBTC system.

“H3C is dedicated to the research, development, sales, and service of IP technology and IP-based products, and is very happy to see its solutions powering the development of rail transit industry in China,” said Mr. Fu Qiang, vice president of sales and marketing at H3C. “And I anticipate that the cooperation between H3C and the rail transit lab will yield rich results in the near future.”