Qrator Labs expands network capabilities through collaboration with IXcellerate

2022: Opening an additional point in the data center of IXcellerate

Qrator Labs on March 30, 2022 announced the expansion of the network thanks to cooperation with IXcellerate. The company invests in the development of its own infrastructure in order to maintain a high level of protection against cyber threats against the background of high rates of digitalization of the economy, both in Russia and internationally. Key customers of Qrator Labs are representatives of the banking sector, transport industry, e-commerce, educational resources, as well as gaming companies, tourism and others. User traffic is filtered by 15 Cleaning Centers, 4 of which are located in Moscow.

Qrator Labs places 48-unit high server racks in the data center of the IXcellerate MOS1 to maintain and develop its own network and server infrastructure. The guaranteed power supply is 5kW. The IXcellerate provides full energy redundancy through a single-phase connection on two beams. Remote maintenance and remote work capabilities by IXcellerate engineers within the "remote hands" service are available to the customer. Backbone access to the Internet is provided by the Megafon telecom operator with a capacity of 100G, redundancy is additionally organized through the Mastertel telecommunications network.

As a data center service provider partner, Qrator Labs was looking for an executor who could ensure high service availability and infrastructure reliability at the level of world standards (99.999%). The neutrality of the data center was a prerequisite for cooperation, since the ability to quickly switch to alternative communication providers is a significant factor in success in the event of external threats and other forcing circumstances. IXcellerate meets all these requirements thanks to its own partner ecosystem, which as of March 2022 brings together more than 50 telecom operators, 4 traffic exchange platforms (including Eurasia Peering IX's own platform) and dozens of other technology companies.

Opening another point in the IXcellerate data center will allow Qrator Labs to provide protection against - DDoSattacks even more the Russian customers and ensure high performance traffic filtering. The operational mode supported by IXcellerate provides the provider with the ability to prevent attacks on the sites and other resources of its customers without temporarily disconnecting the shelves and stopping the current server operation.

Our customer base is growing rapidly, and this is a logical process. Russian business is increasingly moving into an online format and needs to reliably protect its Internet resources. In IXcellerate, the communication ecosystem involves the ability to connect to any of the required operators, "said Alexander Lyamin, founder and CEO of Qrator Labs.

Competition and the level of cyber threats are increasing day by day, which means that hygiene in the network and failure prevention are becoming a tough necessity for all corporate Internet users, regardless of scale and profile of activity. The faster the rate of digitalization, the stronger the need of companies for reliable protection of their data and uninterrupted operation of digital resources. We are pleased to strengthen our partner ecosystem and join forces with Qrator Labs, "said Andrey Aksenov, CEO of IXcellerate.

2021: Opening of 4 traffic processing centers in Moscow

On January 25, 2022, a company Qrator Labs specializing in ensuring the availability Internet of -resources and counteracting - DDoSto the attacks announced the opening of the fourth Traffic Processing Center in. To Moscow This point of presence of the company was launched in, data center IXcellerate backbone Internet access is provided by the company. Megaphone

By launching the fourth point of presence in Moscow together with the telecommunications operator Megafon, Qrator Labs not only expanded its filtering network, but also increased its performance. The company's distributed infrastructure in Russia now relies on four leading telecom operators, which significantly increases its fault tolerance and provides the lowest possible delays for Russian customers.

As of January 2022, the Qrator Labs network already has 15 Traffic Clearing Centers: four filtration points in Russia, two in the USA, three in the EU, four in Asia, one in the Middle East and one in South America. The total bandwidth of Qrator Labs distributed infrastructure is more than 3 TB.

Russian business is increasingly moving into an online format, and the share of companies offering their products and services on the Internet is growing rapidly. Against this growth, the desire of the business to protect its resources from any attacks that can cause even the slightest inaccessibility of the site or application is clearly traced. We at Qrator Labs keep pace with the needs of customers, improving the capabilities of our network in Russia. The opening of the fourth filtering point in Moscow will allow us to provide a service to protect even more Russian customers from DDoS attacks, providing high traffic filtering performance, "said Alexander Lyamin, founder and CEO of Qrator Labs.