SYSTUF: Breaking New Ground in Rail Communications

A project underway in France hopes to demonstrate how LTE technology can be used for both critical and non-critical communications. Alcatel-Lucent is serving as manager of the project which will initially be deployed on Paris Metro Line 14. I spoke with Alcatel-Lucent's Niren Choudhury at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey to learn more about the project and started with the basics, asking, "What is SYSTUF?"