Huawei to build a dedicated railway network for the WHOOSH

On October 09, 2023, Indonesia’s Jakarta–Bandung high-speed railway, known as the WHOOSH, announced its railway appearance. The railway reduces travel time between Jakarta and Bandung from 3.5 hours to just 40 minutes, which will boost economic development along the route.

Huawei to build a dedicated railway network for the WHOOSH

In terms of service, the Chinese tech giant Huawei has partnered with China Railway Signal & Communication (CRSC) and China Telecom to build a dedicated railway network for the WHOOSH.

This network facilitates real-time communications, control, and dispatching of the trains, providing reliable and robust technical support for intelligent, safe, and efficient train operations.

As the first high-speed railway in Southeast Asia, the WHOOSH spans 142.3 kilometers between the capital city of Jakarta and the popular tourist destination of Bandung in Indonesia. The maximum operating speed of the trains is 350 kilometers per hour. The WHOOSH is also the first project that applies China’s high-speed railway system, including all elements of the industry value chain, outside China. The WHOOSH marks Indonesia’s entry into the high-speed railway era.

According to Lai Chaosen, Vice President of Huawei Indonesia, the WHOOSH’s train-to-ground wireless network adopts Huawei’s mature solution and employs interleaving in networking for seamless coverage. By achieving up to 99.99% availability, the network ensures the stable transmission of train control signals and the intelligent orchestration and scheduling of train numbers and function numbers.