Fibre Optic Links for Transport

Transport – connecting it all up

Transport is a diverse sector, employing over four million people in the UK. It includes airlines, rail operators, shipping companies and road hauliers, as well as a number of private and public road user organisations.

Factors facing all these different players are increasing cost and revenue pressures.

Their spend on IT and data communications has remained steady, but demands on data networks are growing steadily – meaning IT directors need to find ways of doing more with less.

Transport businesses are also starting to push IT departments to provide networks that solve business problems and generate new revenue, rather than just keep network traffic running.

Many of these IT managers are finding that ownership of a dedicated fibre network solution is solving a number of challenges posed by increasing data traffic.

These challenges include everything from managing CCTV security infrastructure to the speedy transmission of real-time travel information to help drivers, and rail passengers.

With many transport organisations set to deploy more mobile data solutions dealing in real-time information, the overhead on networks is likely to increase still further.

Likewise, wireless hotspots in trains and at airports which provide travellers with internet connections for their mobile devices are going to add to bandwidth and network security issues.

These challenges can all be met with the right optical fibre solution.