Press release
Telewest Business helps ScotRail get on the right track
as CCTV comes to its stations
August 1 2004. Telewest Business, the supplier of broadband
communications to the public and private sector markets, has
completed a project with ScotRail, to provide and install 21 2MB
circuits to link 21 of ScotRail’s stations to its new CCTV
system.
The project was carried out in two phases. The first saw
Telewest Business, in conjunction with ADT, the supplier of the
CCTV, install 2MB circuits to begin the link up of all the stations
in the CCTV circuit. Telewest Business has now completed the
install of a further 15 2MB circuits to link up all 21
stations.
The main objective of the project is to increase passenger and
station safety through the use of CCTV.
Project manager, Jim Anderson of ScotRail said: “This has been a
relatively easy project to work on as all parties involved ensured
that it ran without a hitch. We wanted to link together 21 of our
busiest stations but did not have the bandwidth or capability to do
it. Telewest Business was able to utilise existing connections near
to the stations and connect them all on to a private network to
allow us to send our video traffic”.
Phil Lunn, Telewest Business, director of data and internet
said: “We are increasingly seeing organisations using private
circuits to link up sites to one common network. Network bandwidth
is easy to adjust and can carry high volumes of video traffic
easily and effectively.”
The stations involved in the project are:
Dalgety Bay, Falkirk High, Haymarket, Inverkeithing, Kirkcaldy,
Linlithgow,Livingston North, Livingston South, Polmont, South Gyle,
Uphall, Carnoustie, Glenrothes with Thornton, Rosyth, Edinburgh
Park, Camelon, Curriehill, Falkirk Grahamston, Kingsknowe, Larbert
and Wester Hailes.
ScotRail Railways Ltd, one of eight Train Operating Companies owned
by National Express Group, provides around 95 per cent of passenger
train services in Scotland plus the Anglo-Scottish Caledonian
Sleepers linking Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort
William with London.