Deutsche Bahn’s outdated GSM-R radio network is structurally vulnerable and requires accelerated migration to the 5G standard FRMCS to mitigate outage risks for critical infrastructure.
Following a rail radio outage, security politicians are calling for a statutory ban on Chinese components in critical infrastructure to prevent sabotage and espionage.
A roughly 90-minute total outage of the GSM-R railway radio network exposed the dependence of critical infrastructure on a single point of failure component lacking documented failover protection.
