General procedures governing maintenance, operating and performance criteria for the UIC member railways telecommunication network

Summary

The Leaflet gives recommendations about test, verification and fault handling of the present international circuit switched telephone network between railways in Europe.

The Leaflet also gives some hints over questions that must be solved for a smooth migration to a digital telephone network for the railways.

Finally, the Leaflet gives a scenario over a future IRTN/international railway telephone network. This scenario takes into account organisation, operation, fault handling, maintenance, network management, accounting and Quality of service.