WiFi Rail, Inc. is a service provider of high-speed mobile internet connection on mass transit environments - even when traveling through underground tunnels - with special focus on commuter rail lines and trains.
Our patent-pending system of hardware/software configurations has demonstrated network speeds capable of providing video to and from the train, Internet VPN, VOIP, train telemetry and a host of other applications that a giant wireless LAN can offer.
WiFi Rail installed a demonstration network on 2.2 miles of the BART Hayward test track and in the four downtown San Francisco stations. Since it's initial installation, more than 20,000 consumers registered and used the system more than 85,000 times, including live streaming video from the trains, proving the utility of the network. Tests on trains moving at over 81 MPH have consistently demonstrated upload and download speeds in excess of 15Mbps.
Service on BART is scheduled to begin on selected segments during 2009. Four downtown San Francisco stations and some segments of the tunnels are already fully functional, and have been providing premium service free to subscribers for the past year.
The WiFi Rail deployment in the BART system will become the largest high bandwidth mobile Internet LAN in the United States. Completion of network construction is planned for the end of 2010.
The WiFi Rail network design can be expanded to provide a parallel network capable of a wide variety of network functions to support public safety and security needs, including those of Homeland Security.
Other transit operations, such as customer information services, and customer train car telemetry applications for maintenance management can be expanded through the network deployment. The WiFi Rail network utilizes standards-based technologies which include a collapsed fiber-optic backbone, Cisco wireless Access Points, Routers, and Switches, and Apple OS-X servers.
WiFI Rail, Inc., founded in late 2005, has developed a high-speed wireless network design that is protected by pending patents in the US and abroad. The WiFi Rail broadband wireless solution is uniquely tailored to address specific technical needs of commuter rail systems. WiFi Rail has recently become a Cisco Advanced Technology Development Partner (ATDP) and is working tightly with the Advanced Technology and Research group allowing WiFi Rail to further enhance the underlying technology of the mobile network.
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The WiFi Rail network design can be expanded to provide a parallel network capable of a wide variety of network functions to support public safety and security needs, including those of 
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