HIT Rail Information

Supporting Europe’s railways for over 30 years Hit Rail helps the European railway community connect their international applications for seamless business across borders. Private clouds, data centres and company networks are interconnected by a pan-European Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Network (VPN), named Hermes VPN. Railway business in the international freight, passenger and infrastructure markets is guided by a need for greater cooperation in an evolving market. More railway operators are increasingly competing and collaborating with each other, and new processes are being established by working with international infrastructure managers. Hit Rail believes that advancing the standardisation and digitalisation of business processes is the best possible means of achieving this cooperation. Secure and efficient cloud IT services and TCP/IP data communications are essential requirements to realising this goal.