By Radio Ethernet technology
On the trains «Sapsan» they plan to raise the maximum Internet speed to 600 Mbit/s, as stated by Deputy General Director of Russian Railways Evgeny Charkin at the conference «Digital Industry of Industrial Russia» (CIPR).
He confirmed that in «Sapsan» The quality of the Internet has already improved. The holding tested a new Internet distribution technology, Radio Ethernet, which is planned to be used on the route Moscow – St. Petersburg.
«We continue to work with operators so that they build up their infrastructure along the railway network,” he said. – Additionally, we will introduce a fundamentally new technology, which in international practice is called Radio Ethernet. We began preparing it for implementation precisely on the route Moscow – St. Petersburg in the Tver region. We carried out a pilot project, the speed indicators were very good, it was 600 Mbit/s».
The construction of the Radio Ethernet network is currently beginning: «First of all, we will close the most painful areas. We will create a combined infrastructure, with this technology plus the infrastructure of operators, and gradually we will create full coverage. Next we will look at the most important destinations in terms of passenger traffic».