IRTN. International Railway Telecommunication Network

The UIC Telecommunication Panel of Experts group (PETER) has been working, since the beginning of 2006, at an integrated telecom vision with the objective of designing and realising a unique railway telecom infrastructure where fixed and mobile telecom networks are fully integrated and "signalling railway applications" can run with the requested QoS. First step was represented by the signature of the "ERNST/EIRENE Memorandum of Understanding on the Integration of Fixed & Mobile railway telecom network numbering schemes and its first pilot implementation". With the new features recently implemented, it has become an efficient tool to manage the IRTN network. A restricted area, recently set, contains a complete inventory of national circuits which form part of international telecommunication lines, and routing tables of telephone switches. Information on current telecom infrastructure has been collected in UIC, as part of the PETER group activity and stored at Infrastructure Department. This document reports information on railway telecom infrastructure from the following networks: DB, Network Rail, ÖBB, PKP, RFF, RFI, SNCB and SZDC.