19 Oct 2009

HIT Rail offers Shares to Hermes Customers

HITRail warmly invites railway customers, who use the Hermes VPN, to become a shareholder in the company. Present shareholders are invited to purchase additional shares. In case of interest, please...
24 Sep 2009

New Traffic Statistics and Network Monitoring Tool

The new Hermes VPN Traffic Statistics and Network Monitoring Tool was completed and opened for the authorized users. It brings many new features and possibilities, e.g. graphical presentation of...
24 Sep 2009

Single Sign On implemented on the Web

After lots of fighting we have finally implemented Single Sign On (SSO) in the hitrail.com website. Authorized users can proceed from the member's area of the web to the Network Reports (and vice...
24 Sep 2009

Internet Gateway Migration

BT migrated the Internet gateway in Niewegein from the old router (shared with the former NS link) to a new platform, ordered for specifically for this purpose by HIT Rail. This could cause short...
8 Jun 2009

New EUROSTAR site in Leyton

New site in Leyton (eastern London) was installed for EUROSTAR. The connection uses 2Mbps leased line with Premium DSL as backup (with HSRP). Migration of the traffic will follow soon.
19 May 2009

Migration of ISDN backups to Internet gateway

Some ISDN backups (i.e. RZD Moscow, CFL Luxembourg and ZSR Bratislava) migrated successfuly to the Internet gateway already. Other sites will follow soon (e.g. SZ Ljubljana). Exceptions are Paris UIC...
25 Mar 2009

New Site in Lelystad activated

The migration of the Hermes VPN connection for NS International from Nieuwegein to Lelystad was completed. The migration happened on 24th March 2009 at 12:00 and all went well.
2 Mar 2009

Nieuwegein Site Changes

NS International confirmed their intention to migrate hosting of their central applications and of their Hermes access point from Nieuwegein to Lelystad (by May 2009). However, Nieuwegein will remain...
2 Mar 2009

Cessation of ISDN Backup Catcher

Due to the changes in the Hermes network, as of 1st May 2009 the ISDN Catcher will no longer function. All the sites that still use ISDN backup should take action to migrate to Internet - based...
23 Dec 2008

New freight applications in the East

Another Eastern railway companies start to use Hermes VPN for their freight bussiness. PKP Cargo exchanges application 30 messages (freight train consist advice) with CD Cargo in test production...