Corinna Budras
Business correspondent in Berlin.
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Deutsche Bahn wants to take additional security measures to prevent future sabotage of its radio network like last weekend.
According to members of the supervisory board after a special meeting on Friday morning, the railway and federal police will monitor the cable systems more closely with additional patrols.
The state-owned company also wants to check the infrastructure and install additional redundancies.
To do this, it wants to use free capacity in existing fiber optic networks, and new cables are also to be laid.
Redundant systems are central to maintaining critical infrastructures, such as on the railways, even in emergency situations.
If a technical system fails due to a fault, a second spatially separate connection takes over the task.
This is exactly what the most recent attack on the radio system was aimed at: last Saturday morning, the previously unknown perpetrators first cut through cables in Herne and then also cut up lines hundreds of kilometers away in Berlin.
Only then did radio traffic come to a standstill in large parts of northern Germany.