Russian telecommunications provider Comstar announced it has completed and launched the backbone support ring of its transport telecommunications network in the Moscow area.

 

With the launch of backbone support ring, Comstar’s Moscow Regional Branch has completed the most important stage of the transport network construction project in the Moscow region, officials said.

 

Launched in 2008, this multiservice transport network project is worth $ 3.4 million. Comstar plans to complete the project by 2013, said Dmitry Dronov, director of Comstar’s Moscow Regional Branch. The service will benefit local residential subscribers, state organizations and private companies. 

 

The total length of the next generation network’s “NGN” new fiber-optic lines connecting the ring’s telecommunications facilities exceeds 180 km. Comstar’s engineers have installed 44 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and 264 Fast Ethernet ports which enable a data transmission speed capacity of 10 Gigabits per second.

 

The transport network’s support ring consists of 11 backbone nodes and will be used in the future to attach fiber-optic lines connected to remote regional towns, officials said.

 

With this high-capacity network, Comstar will be able to provide a reliable high quality telecommunications services, including digital telephony, pay-TV and broadband Internet access to almost all towns of the Moscow region.

 

In addition, Comstar will be able to rent out its channels and provide interconnection services to local telecommunications operators almost on the whole territory of the Moscow region.

 

Comstar has received permission from the Federal Service for Monitoring of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation to start operating the telecommunications facilities which have been built as a part of the first stage of the transport network construction project in the Moscow region.

 

Recently Comstar announced  the commercial launch of its fixed wireless broadband internet network in the 5.5 GHz frequency band, connecting three Moscow suburbs, namely Jostovo, Iksha and Yakhroma.

 

Comstar has also deployed equipment at the base stations to provide internet access over dedicated wireless channels with committed data rates of up to 27 Mbps.