CSX Transportation Stays on Track With IP Mobility

Overview

CSX Corporation has grown to be a multimodal freight transportation company that provides rail and intermodal transportation services across North America. CSX needed a better method of end-to-end communications that would be available everywhere it was needed to everyone who needed it, and would also enable convergence of voice and data for the most up-to-date status of track conditions, engine and car conditions, and other important variables. They identified the need for a suite of applications including position reporting, work orders, event recorder downloading, and train control which led to the concept of a Communications Management Unit (CMU) that is enabled by a Cisco Mobile Access Router (MAR).