Belarusian Transit

08/11/2019

According to TeleGeography international network service provider RETN and Belarusian telecoms provider Beltelecom have announced the completion of a transit network section across the Republic of Belarus.

The two companies joined forces to deploy the high-capacity DWDM route linking Moscow (Russia), Velikiye Luki (Russia), Minsk (Belarus), Brest (France), Warsaw (Poland) and Frankfurt (Germany), thus ‘significantly expanding the capacity for the transit traffic in the region’. Andrey Soborov, Acting Director at RETN in Belarus, commented: ‘Due to the agreements achieved with our partner, Beltelecom, the new transit route enables nx100Gbps high bandwidth connectivity for transport of European and Asian traffic between Russia and Eastern Europe. The network segment is built using Infinera’s DWDM equipment and allows to transfer a large amount of data with a minimal delay.’

Useful links:

https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2019/11/08/cable-compendium-a-guide-to-the-weeks-submarine-and-terrestrial-development/

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