Press Release

October 2009 – 01

Case Communications secures contract with Network Rail

October 2009 – High Wycombe, England

Case Communications is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by Network Rail for the Northern City Line. The contract is for a mission-critical network mainly around London with links to Network Rail centres in the north of the country and uses Case Communications rugged switches and routers and a dual CaseView network management system.

Case Communications spokesman Steven Saulis said, "The network is mission critical: in the event of a failure the rail service would be suspended, which would result in significant losses for Network Rail. The network has therefore been designed to be highly resilient. The CaseView management system allows multiple users to monitor and manage the network 24 x 365, with staff at two different locations able to view the network and have instant alerts in the event of problems.

If CaseView detects a problem out of hours, it is able to send e-mails and messages to staff allowing them to react quickly. In addition, CaseView monitors errors on the network circuits and pre-empts any problems with those circuits, allowing network rail managers to resolve any possible problems before they become serious.

The system is currently being installed in the London region after Network Rail laboratories spent several months approving the Case Communications products for use in the network.