Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 26 | Page 32

LATEST INTELLIGENCE LATEST REGIONAL PROJECT UPDATE FRANCE Ericsson has been selected by Orange France to deploy its 5G radio access network (RAN) in three major French regions, including the capital Paris, and modernise its existing 2G/3G/4G radio access network. Ericsson 5G RAN products and solutions from the Ericsson Radio System portfolio will be deployed in the Orange network in the North-East, South-West and Ile de France/Paris regions of France. The five-year deal will make Ericsson the major RAN provider to Orange France. SWITZERLAND FINCONS GROUP, an international IT consulting and system integration company with over 1,600 employees in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and the USA, has been awarded the ‘Railway Production Shoring Factory’ contract, together with another technology provider. Software for the industry programme, smartrail 4.0, is also being developed in the area of rail production. As part of its digitisation process, Swiss Federal Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen – SBB) will carry out a number of projects for the development and implementation of applications in railway technology at the FINCONS GROUP’s delivery centre in Bari. 32 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com