Swiss Federal Railways(SBB)-Ansible
The Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) plans to invest close to US$1 billion annually in new and modernized trains. To support intelligent service devices across more than 100,000 on-board systems, SBB centralized and automated device management and development platform using Red Hat Ansible Automation and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, supported by Red Hat Satellite. With this solution, SBB has reduced device configuration times by 90%, improved the security of its data and network, and given developers access to data that will inform new, innovative services for railway passengers.
After connecting all of its trains to a corporate network through 4G LTE mobile routers, SBB sought to establish an IT infrastructure that could take advantage of this connection to centrally manage all of the intelligent devices across its rail network. In addition, a standardized Internet of Things (IoT) environment would simplify development and launch of new services across the network.