Author: Mikhail Doroshevich
07/06/2008
Beltelecom and Rostelecom finished organising a straight access channel to russian Internet segment's resources.
"Broadening of external channels for Belarusian data transfer is a logical step. While country's Internet userbase is increasing, external communications channel is increasing as well, this is especially true in case of
Earlier connection with russian internet segment was provided by Peterstar operator, who allowed for a total of 1.8Gbit/second channel for Russian Federation.
Broadth of the new channel, which is organised with Rostelecom, makes 2Gbit/second, while Peterstar's is a bit bigger than 1.2Gbit/second, meaning an increase from 1.8Gbit/second to 3.2Gbit/second. For the rest of foreign resources, the channel will remain the same - 1.2Gbit/second.
With creation of a new channel, total Belarusian Internet gateway broadened to 4.5Gbit/second.
Useful links:
E-Belarus.ORG, 2001-2011
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