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3. Technologies and solutions
This section does not claim to cover all the technologies used in the railway sector, but simply to highlight a few of them: those that are already driving the digital transformation of the sector, and those that are likely to transform systems and related operations even more profoundly.
3.1 Ethernet and web technologies
Born in the 1970s at Xerox as an internal, proprietary technology, Ethernet was then standardized around the 1980s within the IEEE organization under the reference 802.3 and has since been widely adopted, to the point of becoming an essential communications standard.
Ethernet is a technology that enables equipment on a LAN (Local Area Network) to...
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Standards and norms
- Railway applications – Classification system for railway vehicles. Part 4 – Function groups. - NF EN 15380-4 - 03-13
- Electronic railway equipment – Train onboard network (TCN) – Part 1: general architecture. - IEC 61375-1 - 06-12
- Railway applications – Signalling, telecommunication and processing systems – Software for rail control and protection systems. - NF EN 50128 - 10-11
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