6WIND and Kontron Transportation integrate the Turbo IPsec solution for Railways and mission-critical companies

The two companies partner up to integrate and deliver Security Gateway solutions to Railways and the mission-critical market.

6WIND, a leading high-performance networking software company announces its partnership with Kontron Transportation France to deliver the 6WIND Turbo IPsec solution to railway infrastructure managers across Europe.

In the present day it is essential to protect and maintain integrity of data transmission between network functions. This need drives solutions to become more secure. Kontron actively participates in current EU projects to contribute and propose common security measures for the railway sector and is continuously integrating new security requirements into the development of products and new features. The partnership between 6WIND and Kontron is a long-term collaboration to deliver reliable Access IP 2G GSM-R, 4G (PS-LTE) and 5G (FRMCS) solutions using the 6WIND Turbo IPsec solution to provide end-to-end security over the mobile backhaul network.

"This partnership with 6WIND gives us and our customers unique differentiation with embedded and standalone leading edge security gateways and IPSec capabilities, enabling us to always strengthen and maintain security of our GSM-R systems (2G) that do evolve towards IP connectivity, but also our next generations systems such as PS-LTE and FRMCS portfolio", stated Michael Riegert, CEO, Kontron Transportation.

"We are delighted to sign this partner agreement with Kontron to distribute and deliver Security Gateway solutions to private railway and public safety networks across Europe", commented Julien Dahan, CEO, 6WIND. "Our Next-Generation Security Gateway solution integrates into Kontron’s environment to deliver highly scalable secure VPNs services at the best cost performance ratio, on white box servers."

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