BEIJING

SUBWAY

Providing the high-level of operational reassurance required for critical city infrastructure.

"The value that RiT Tech and their DCIM software, XpedITe has brought to our operations is not only top-level technology and high quality products but the most important achievement is the impact it has had on our day-to-day provisioning and work orders. Through the software, we can design and simulate all connectivity tasks that are integrated with our intelligent hardware - avoiding human error and making our operations safe and efficient."

- Ms. Zhao, Chief Technical Officer, Beijing Metro Network Control Center

Client: Beijing Subway 


Industry: Public Transport Network 


Location: China 


Scale: 40 Control Centers; 100 Cabinets and over 1000 Distribution Frames


Tianjin City Rail Transit & Beijing Subway, converge the control centers across the the railway and subway lines including critical operational and warning systems.

Our Client's Challenge


The most critical challenge for customer running Beijing’s underground system is having real time connectivity management information across multiple distributed sites, each of which is critical to operational control and ultimately human life safety.


RiT Tech is providing both hardware and XpedITe to manage this national infrastructure system of more than 100 subway stations.

"Accurate and reliable 24/365 real-time management, monitoring and alerts"

Our XpedITe solution


RiT Tech provides fiber optic cable line subsystems for backbone communication systems including an intelligent management solution for optical fiber routing.


Our system consolidates information and management across 40 stations and control centers, 100 cabinets, more than 1,000 fiber distribution frames and over 20,000 intelligent ports.


Our XpedITe solution now provides the complete picture of the far-reaching cabling and fiber distribution between and beyond stations; achieving an unparalleled standard of accuracy regarding the cable routing and connectivity as well as real-time time information offering the ability to quickly identify and resolve any breakdowns.


The unique key to the success of the solution is the ability to seamlessly integrate with the subway’s own central alarm system. As soon as an issue is dedicated, Beijing Subway’s CAS communicates immediately to XpedITe which in turn flags the issue and suggested steps. This fully integrated and customized solution took just two weeks to build.


Another important benefit are the provisioning and visual representation features offered by XpedITe. Through our platform, clients can now see their whole process and connectivity flow between each station in real time on a detailed high resolution graphical display. They can see every cable, every patch panel and port and it is all dynamically color coded, so that they can see every detail behind the panels.


For the provision and deployment of cables and connectivity, the XpedITe tool accurately identifies the device, port and connection requirements to create an accurate unique workorder with a step by step sequence of actions required to complete the required task. This means that the different teams involved from design and planning to operations and installation have a complete track of the required finished solution and the step needed to accomplish it, from start to finish and including all stakeholders. This can even include 3rd party installers operating remotely.

Integration:

As soon as an issue is dedicated, Beijing Subway’s CAS communicates immediately to XpedITe which in turn flags the issue and suggested steps. This fully integrated and customized solution took just two weeks to build.

Connectivity:

Through our platform, clients can now see their whole process and connectivity flow between each station in real time on a detailed high resolution graphical display. They can see every cable, every patch panel and port and it is all dynamically colour coded, so that they can see every detail behind the panels.

Utilization: 

Benefits for our client include a more efficient use of deployed resources, a reduction of labor overhead, limiting human error and improving workflow efficiency as well as time to service.

Reduced downtime and average time of repair

What our client values about XpedITe


Our client chose XpedITe for multiple features including accurate and reliable 24/7 real-time management and monitoring, remote site inspection, critical alarm information, multi-system linkage and intelligent management of the vital information in their database. This has resulted in many additional benefits for our client including a more efficient use of deployed resources, a reduction of labor overhead, limiting human error and improving workflow efficiency as well as time to service.


XpedITe's PatchView+ and Automated Infrastructure Management Solutions (AIM) has significantly transformed their operations and provided the high level of operational reassurance needed for this critical city infrastructure. This transformation has been based upon:


  • Accurate and reliable 24/365 real-time management, monitoring and alerts
  • Reduced downtime and average time to repair
  • Accurate real-time visibility into physical connectivity
  • Improved resource allocation and utilisation
  • 100% accurate real-time documentation
  • Long term labor and cost savings
  • Accurate and reliable asset management
  • Planning automation through the provisioning module
  • Improved remote management
  • A limitation of human error

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