Research Institute Scale

Research Institute "Scale" (from 1991 to 2012 - FSUE "Research Institute" Scale, "from 2012 to 2015 - OJSC" Research Institute "Scale," since 2015 JSC "Research Institute" Scale ") - a radio electronics enterprise subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, founded in 1991 on the basis of LNPO" Krasnaya Zarya, "part of JSC Concern" Automation "State Corporation" Rostec. "

He specializes in scientific research, the development of technical concepts and high-tech solutions in the field of telecommunications. It is a full life cycle company (R&D, implementation, maintenance, service and repair), which works in production cooperation with enterprises of the electronic complex (REC) of Rostec Group of Companies, Russian and foreign technological partners.

• The company's slogan: "The scale of ideas is the scale of decisions."
• The mission of JSC NII Scale is "We create and make available an ecosystem of telecommunications and IT solutions for comfortable safe communications and business continuity without borders."

Areas of activity

Research Institute "Scale" is engaged in the development of military and dual-use communications: routers, firewalls, telephony systems, video conferencing, unified communications, IT and telecommunications infrastructure virtualization platforms, network diagnostics, monitoring and control systems, etc. Thanks to the developments of the Research Institute "Scale," a large number of departmental communication networks were put into operation, including the most important networks of national importance.

The company has expertise and competencies in the following areas of development:

• Comprehensive security policies
• Network Security Tools
• Telecommunications platforms
• Virtualization Platforms and Converged Infrastructure
• Unified Communications Tools
• Comprehensive system projects and network integration solutions

History

2023: Exit from Bulat Company

In early May 2023, it became known that the state corporation Rostec refused to participate in Bulat LLC, a joint venture with Rostelecom, which is developing domestic telecommunications and IT equipment. Read more here.

2022: Russian virtualization. Review of 15 developers of domestic products

The analytical center TAdviser studied who is who Russian in the funds market, virtualizations analyzed the functional and integration capabilities of the products, assessed the experience of development companies. Among the companies and products studied are the Research Institute "Scale" (product). Veil Read more about the research here [1]

2021: Creation of a network security competence center in conjunction with S-Terra CSP

In St. Petersburg, a network security competence center is being created on the basis of a technological partnership between the Concern NII Scale JSC and S-Terra CSP LLC. This was announced on April 2, 2021 by the Avtomatika Concern. The goals and objectives of cooperation are the creation of a high-tech line of network security tools on the domestic electronic component base and the development of the competencies of Russian developers to ensure cybersecurity in the social sphere and the military-industrial complex. The first jointly developed network security devices are expected at the end of 2021.

At the beginning of April 2021, companies are jointly testing prototypes of a modular crypto device as part of general-purpose firewalls. The companies plan to create compact network security devices with built-in cryptography for use: from gateways for IoT devices and subscriber access devices to full-format firewalls.

The pilot project is the creation of a hardware and software cryptographic device of a modular type based on existing solutions and developments. The cryptomodule was created on a domestic electronic component base in the form factor of a single-board computer and is designed to be embedded in a class of network security devices such as firewalls, routers and telecommunications equipment for various purposes. In the future, we see the potential for creating SSoC (Secured System on Chip) or secure systems on a chip with built-in cryptography, "said Pavel Smirnov, General Director of Research Institute Scale.

The solution allows you to optimize customer costs. As a rule, cryptographic processing devices information are created in the form of separate devices, our development is a modular design, which reduces the total cost of ownership.

The potential market for this product is not limited: a modular cryptographic device integrated into various network devices can become the basis for any industry solutions. The emergence of an affordable, competitive and fully domestic product will be the next step in ensuring the security of domestic telecommunications networks and will reduce dependence on import solutions, "said Mikhail Ivanov, General Director of S-Terra CSP LLC.

2019: Appointment of a grant as Minpromtorg to the staff of Avtomatika concern

On April 18, 2019, the Avtomatika concern reported that the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation appointed scholarships to 14 employees of the Avtomatika Concern holding for a significant contribution and outstanding achievements in creating breakthrough technologies and developing modern weapons, military and special equipment in the interests of ensuring the country's defense and state security. Read more here.

2018

On September 21, 2018, the Academy of Digital Technologies and the Research Institute Scale signed an agreement on equipping classrooms with telecommunication equipment developed by the Institute and on participating in the preparation of an educational program on information security for junior and middle classes.

2016: Creation of a joint venture with Rostelecom's daughter on the basis of Bulat

Rostelecom and the United Instrument-Making Corporation (OPK), which is part of the Rostec state corporation, announced in May 216 the creation of a joint venture for the production of telecommunications equipment. The basis for this enterprise was Bulat, a subsidiary of the Russian telecommunications equipment manufacturer Qtech.

Rostelecom, represented by its "daughter" Vestelcom, received 37.5% of Bulat shares. The Scale Research Institute, which is part of the defense industry complex, will have the same amount. The remaining 25% of Bulat shares will remain with Qtech. Previously, Qtech had 52%, Taigibov Temirlan Taigibovich 47%. The amount of the transaction to enter the structures of Rostelecom and the defense industry complex into the authorized capital of Bulat was symbolic, said Leonid Khozin, a representative of the defense industry complex. Read more here.

2012-2015

• Since 2012, JSC NII Scale has been operating a test bench implemented on the IXIA platform for testing IP networks, telecommunications equipment and service delivery platforms. A distinctive feature of the stand is the ability to test the developed equipment, networks, various applications for compliance with RFC, international recommendations and specifications.
• In December 2012, in Moscow, the Research Institute "Scale" was awarded in the nomination the best research enterprise in the framework of the All-Russian competition "100 best enterprises and organizations of Russia - 2012."
• On September 1, 2014, at the Research Institute "Scale," the basic master's department "High-Performance Telecommunication Networks (VTKS)" of the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (St. Petersburg National Research University ITMO) was opened.
• In September 2015, at the Faculty of Information Systems and Geotechnology of the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, the basic department "Design of Protected Telecommunication Systems" (PZTKS) was created at the Research Institute Scale JSC.

1897-1991

• The history of the company begins in 1897, when the St. Petersburg Telephone Factory was founded (Russian joint-stock company Erickson & Co., Erickson Telephone Plant), which produces telephone sets, switches, military field devices, devices for controlling fire of naval artillery and coastal defense artillery.
• The Erickson Telephone Plant was renamed the Krasnaya Zarya Petrograd Telephone Plant in 1922.
• In 1931, the plant was the first in Leningrad to be awarded the Order of Lenin.
• In 1958, the products of the Red Dawn were awarded the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Brussels.
• By the mid-60s, the plant supplies its products to 40 countries of the world, provides technical assistance in the construction of telephone factories and training specialists to many friends and partners of the country.
• In 1953, the Research Institute of Electrotechnical Devices (NII ETO) stood out from the Krasnaya Zarya plant, the main activity of which was the creation of technical means of data transmission and phototelegraphic equipment. The customers of these means were the air defense troops, the Navy, the Space Forces. Complexes of technical means of data transmission created by the Research Institute of ETU, Araks, Aragva, Weather, Accord-SS-PD, Accord-SS-PS and a number of others are still in operation in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
• In 1964, the Krasnaya Zarya production association was formed, transformed in 1972 into the Leningrad Scientific and Production Association (LNPO).
• In 1972, the Research Institute of ETO became part of the Krasnaya Zarya LNPO and continued its activities in the development of technical means and data transmission systems, voice, fax and telegraph information of various secrecy stamps for customers represented by the KGB of the USSR, the National Assembly of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 12 departments of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Air Defense, Space Forces, Navy.
• The history of the enterprise as an independent legal entity begins in 1991, when the research institute "Scale" was formed on the basis of the data transmission units of the Krasnaya Zarya LNPO, focused at that time on the most promising and breakthrough directions in the field of telecommunications - the development of secure Internet technologies, namely, secure multi-service networks with special and dual-purpose packet switching, network management and security management systems, as well as other Internet technologies.

Strategy

JSC NII Scale is part of JSC Concern Avtomatika of Rostec state corporation, and therefore, in accordance with the corporation's development strategy (promoting the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products), in its activities it strives for goals in two main directions - state (special) and commercial:

• promotion of innovative development of the radio-electronic and telecommunication industry in Russia;
• creation of products with a high share of intellectual property to ensure competitiveness in the markets of high-tech products.

The main purpose of the company's activity is to extract commercial benefits through the implementation of its own competitive technologies and products, the main share in the structure of added value of which is formed due to the results of its own intellectual activity, as well as subsidiaries and partners.

In the strategic plan, the Research Institute "Scale" identified tasks and key indicators until 2021, such as: increasing net profit, achieving technological leadership, increasing the level of competitiveness of products and services, building an effective personnel selection system, commercializing technologies, products and services.

Ideology

The chosen ideology of the company's products formation is based on the principle of separation software from the hardware platform.

This principle corresponds to the global concept of creating a software-defined infrastructure (SDI). The applications and the physical hardware on which they run are separated and fully controlled by the software, maximizing flexibility, availability, and efficiency.

The scheme presents a practical embodiment of the SDI principle by the Research Institute "Scale":

• Separation of software and hardware components - use of general-purpose servers;
• Use of operating systems based on Linux, including domestic developments:, Astra Linux, Alt Linux OS; Elbrus
• Application of domestic schematic engineering solutions (if possible);
• The ability to include various processor architectures in hardware platforms - the transition to Russian-made processors.

The principle of software abstraction from the hardware platforms used allows the company to maximize the use of unified hardware (general-purpose servers of its own design or purchased from partners and suppliers) as part of its own hardware and software products.

Research Institute "Scale" does not exclude the possibility of using specialized network processors, programmable logic integrated circuits in final products.

Major achievements

• Data transmission system (SPD) "WEATHER" (1967-1975) (Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR) - exhibited at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR.
• The integrated network of classified transmission of telegraph, facsimile, voice information and data "RODNIK-2" (1979-1984) (GKB USSR) is the country's first multifunctional departmental encrypted communication system.
• The ISTOK system (1986-2018) (KGB of the USSR - FAPSI - FSO) has been successfully functioning for several decades in the FSO, is an interstate system, and its modernization is currently underway.
• The data exchange system (SOD) of the automated information exchange system (ACOI) "PROSTOR-R" (1995-2006) (Space Forces) - this is the first network in the Ministry of Defense built using packet switching technology, put into operation.

CEOs

• Davydov Evgeny Borisovich (1991-2008)
• Davydov Alexander Evgenievich (2008 - 02.2013)
• Sergey Olegovich Eskin (02.2013 - 09.2013)
• Smirnov Pavel Igorevich (from 12.2013 to present)

Personnel

As of the end of 2018, 195 people worked at the Research Institute "Scale" JSC. The average age of employees is 39 years. Compared to 2012, the average age decreased by 6 years. 84% of employees have higher education, 9 employees with a degree.

For the development and implementation of an integral network of classified transmission of telegraph, facsimile, speech information and data "RODNIK-2" state awards were awarded - laureates of the Lenin Prize were the GC systems E.B. Davydov, Petrovich V.I., Baranov Yu.M., Laureates of the State Prize of the USSR became Antoshevsky V.S., S.P. Vorobyov, Dobritsky I.B., Pleshko B.S., government medals awarded 23 employees of the enterprise.

The development team was awarded gold, silver and bronze medals at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR for the SPD "WEATHER," and was also nominated for the USSR State Prize.

For achievements in the development of radio electronics and communications, the badge "Honorary Radio Operator," the medal named after the Minister of Radio Industry of the USSR V.I. Shimko in different years was awarded to employees of the enterprise.

Interaction with universities

• In May 2014, at the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (St. Petersburg National Research University ITMO), the basic master's department "High-Performance Telecommunications Networks" was created at the Faculty of Computer Technologies and Management, and later in 2016 the master's program "Technologies for the Development of Telecommunications Systems" was opened. In 2017, a transition was made to the network form of implementing part of the corporate educational program of the master's degree with the provision of specialization "Telecommunications Systems."
• In the summer of 2015, at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSGMU), the Faculty of Information Systems and Geotechnology created the basic department "Design of Protected Telecommunication Systems" as part of the training of specialists in the specialty 10.05.02 "Information Security of Telecommunications Systems."
• At the end of 2018, the Research Institute "Scale" provides training for 16 masters, 1 graduate student and about 60 students of 3, 4 and 5 courses. The educational process is built in the form of specialized disciplines, the organization of practices of various types of academic leadership of graduation and scientific qualification works. Active scientific work, joint participation in international scientific and practical conferences and publications in scientific journals are also being carried out.