"TransTeleCom" turned on seamless Wi-Fi for passengers of the railway station "Square of three stations"

2023

Organization of seamless Wi-Fi at the station "Square of three stations"

On June 19, 2023, TransTeleCom announced that it had provided wireless Internet access at the Ploshchad Three Railway Stations station, recently opened in Moscow.

The service is implemented in a seamless format - this means that, moving between different areas of the station and across platforms, the passenger remains in touch without the need for re-connections.

For several years TransTeleCom has been actively participating in a project to develop public Wi-Fi networks at railway facilities. In particular, wireless Internet access, organized for passengers, already operates at nearby Yaroslavsky, Leningradsky and Kazan railway stations. The Square of Three Stations station is part of the current Moscow central diameter of the MTsD-2, as well as a new MTsD-4, which will be put into operation in the near future.

Organization of seamless Wi-Fi at the stations "Lesnoy Gorodok," "Ochakovo" and "Maryina Roshcha"

On March 16, 2023, TransTeleCom announced that it continues to develop public Wi-Fi access for passengers of the capital's railway transport. A seamless wireless network now operates at the Lesnoy Gorodok, Ochakovo and Maryina Roshcha stations, opened in early 2023.

These stations are part of the Moscow central diameter of the MTsD-4, which will be put into operation as early as 2023.

For several years TransTeleCom has been actively participating in the project of the Central Directorate of Passenger Facilities, a branch of Russian Railways for the development of public seamless Wi-Fi networks at railway facilities. Earlier, the service was launched at the Moscow Vostochny railway station and the Aeroexpress terminal at Sheremetyevo airport, the Meshcherskaya interchange hub and other stations.

2022: Organization of seamless Wi-Fi at Leningradsky, Moskovsky, Tver and Bologoe railway stations

On December 19, 2022, the company RUSSIAN RAILWAY"" announced that, together with the federal operator communications provider and digital services, JSC "Company" Transtelecom organized a seamless wireless Internet access network on high-speed trains "," Sapsan Leningrad and Moscow railway stations, as well as railway stations Tver and Bologoe. Now passengers of Sapsan trains having authorized on the network once, receive continuous access to when to the Internet moving between the train and stations.

Single seamless authorization eliminates the need to re-enter data when authorizing on one of the devices. The passenger can start using the service sitting in the station waiting room, and continue - already in his place on the train or vice versa, without additional operations.

To start using seamless Wi-Fi, a passenger needs to connect to the network from his mobile device and pass authorization.

2021: Deployment of Wireless Internet Access Network at Vostochny Station

The federal operator of communications provider and digital services "" Transtelecom has deployed a free wireless network Internet for passengers at Vostochny station. A single seamless space has been created throughout the large station complex, where users, once logged in, have continuous access to high-speed to the Internet technology Wi-Fi even when moving between different areas of the station, significantly remote from each other, the TransTeleCom reported on June 8, 2021.

Vostochny is the first among the railway stations in Russia to be equipped with such an opportunity, the company said. The complex solution includes the placement of modern equipment at passenger stations: in the zones of pedestrian crossings, concourses, platforms and in the premises of the station. The new network routers are equipped with specialized modules for communication with the controller, which creates a continuous environment for passing a Wi-Fi signal, and the passenger will be able to move around the entire station complex, maintaining high signal quality.

"Communication services for objects transport-logistic spheres are traditionally one of the priority areas of our work. We congratulate our colleagues on the opening of a large station complex and are confident that the technological solution proposed by us will create a comfortable digital environment for each passenger, "said the General Director of TransTeleCom Company JSC. Roman Kravtsov

"TransTeleCom is a strategic partner for us when equipping railway facilities with reliable wireless communication. At the Vostochny station, as a modern complex project, the best technological solutions are integrated, "said Roman Tsukanov, head of the Central Directorate of Passenger Facilities of Russian Railways.

The Vostochny station complex began its work on May 29, 2021. Earlier, nine railway stations took passengers in the capital: Leningradsky, Kazansky, Yaroslavsky, Belorussky, Kursk, Paveletsky, Rizhsky, Savelovsky and Kievsky. Vostochny became the tenth Moscow station, as well as the first built in the last hundred years.

2020: Connecting the business halls of eight major train stations to free Wi-Fi

On November 26, 2020, TransTeleCom, a federal provider of digital services, announced the connection in 2020 of free wireless Internet access in business halls of the updated format of the eight largest railway stations in the country.

Dedicated access for visitors to business halls is organized at the Leningradsky and Paveletsky railway stations in Moscow, the Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg, as well as at the railway stations in Petrozavodsk, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Volgograd. The dedicated bandwidth of the channels allows you to provide Internet access at high speed, regardless of the intensity of service consumption by other visitors to station complexes outside the business halls.

The project of Russian Railways and TransTeleCom to equip station complexes with free access to the Wi-Fi network has been implemented since September 2015. During this time, more than two hundred railway stations, stations and stopping points were provided with wireless Internet access. The service is very popular: for example, in the third quarter of 2020, passengers downloaded 337 TB of traffic, which is 28% more than in the same period in 2019.

Providing Internet access at high speed on the territory of station complexes is carried out in order to improve the quality of service and create even more comfortable conditions for our passengers and visitors, the press service of the Railway Station Directorate commented.

Over the five-year history of the development of the service, Wi-Fi from TransTeleCom at train stations has become a familiar and convenient way for passengers to stay in touch and spend time usefully. We see a constant increase in the popularity of this service and are confident that this service for business halls will be well received by customers, - said Sergey Obidovsky, Head of the Federal Projects Department of TransTeleCom Company JSC.

2019:80 stations equipped with Wi-Fi access

On June 18, 2019, the company TRANSTELECOM announced that, together with OJSC "" in RUSSIAN RAILWAY 2019 Wi-Fi , more than 80 railway stations were equipped with access.

Over the past months of 2019, visitors to newly connected stations have accessed the Internet via Wi-Fi more than 265 thousand times, and the total volume of downloaded traffic was almost 53 TB.

Wireless Internet access in 2019 appeared at train stations, stations and stopping points in, Moscow,, Rostovskaya,, Kemerovo, Vladimirskaya Irkutsk Nizhny Novgorod regions the republics of Mari El,,,,, in,, Chuvashia Udmurtia Tatarstan regions and Krasnodar Primorsk Krasnoyarsk other regions. Russia

To use the service, the passenger needs to pass authorization once - in the future, his mobile device will automatically connect to the network at any station included in a single Wi-Fi network. As of June 2019, 216 railway stations are equipped with free wireless Internet access.

2018

Guests of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia log in to Wi-Fi networks at train stations by ticket number

On June 15, 2018, TransTeleCom announced the implementation of the possibility of authorization in Wi-Fi networks at the railway stations of the host cities by the number of the travel document. First of all, the innovation will help foreign guests who may not have SIM cards of the Russian mobile operator. Previously, authorization in Wi-Fi networks was carried out exclusively by mobile phone number.

RUSSIAN RAILWAYS, 2018

The authorization system of the Unified Wi-Fi network at 31 railway stations in the cities hosting the matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia was integrated with the Russian Railways ASU Express system. This allows you to quickly identify the passenger when registering in a wireless network in accordance with the requirements of Russian law. At the same time, complete security of user data of passengers is ensured.

In order to connect to the wireless Internet, passengers need to find the name of the network in the settings of their device and go through a simple authorization procedure by entering the number of their railway ticket in the corresponding field. You can log in to the travel document number four hours before the train departs and within four hours after arriving at the station.

author '= Roman Kravtsov, President of TransTeleCom "All telecoms companies are now looking to contribute to the preparations for the World Cup to ensure the comfort and safety of players and fans. Thousands of foreign tourists will be able to appreciate the convenience of using free Wi-Fi at railway stations. "

The number of connections to free Wi-Fi at railway stations exceeded 5.5 million

In February 2018, TransTeleCom (TTK) analyzed the use of wireless Internet access at Russian railway stations. The single Wi-Fi network has been operating since 2015 and, as of February 28, covers 107 stations in 83 settlements of the country.

At the end of 2017, the total number of connections to free Wi-Fi at railway stations in Russia exceeded 5.5 million, and the total volume of downloaded traffic came close to 1000 TB.

Visitors to the stations showed the greatest activity in the summer months: for example, in August 2017, the total number of connections exceeded 566 thousand, which, for example, is 44% higher than in February. The total number of unique users of the service in the summer is one and a half times more than in the winter months, the TransTeleCom noted.

Seasonality is also viewed in the dynamics of the volume of incoming traffic. The most "active" month was August - visitors to Russian stations this month downloaded 96 TB of data, in second place - July (92 TB), and in third - December (91 TB). Among the spring months, the leader in Wi-Fi activity at the stations was May, and among the autumn months - November.

The Leningrad station in Moscow topped the rating in terms of the number of unique Wi-Fi users in 2017, and Yaroslavsky - in terms of the volume of downloaded traffic. However, in the summer months, leadership in both parameters was intercepted by the Adler railway station. In September and October 2017, the maximum volume of incoming traffic via Wi-Fi networks was recorded at the Samara station.

The most active city in terms of Wi-Fi consumption is expected to be Moscow (Leningradsky, Kursk, Yaroslavsky, Kazan and Paveletsky railway stations), in second place is St. Petersburg (Moscow, Baltic, Finland, Ladoga, Vitebsk railway stations). Also in the top five leaders in the number of wireless access users include Adler, Novosibirsk and Samara.

In general, the top 5 stations in terms of the number of unique Wi-Fi users at stations in 2017 is as follows:

1. Leningradsky (more than 147 thousand)
2. Yaroslavsky (more than 141 thousand)
3. Kursky (more than 133 thousand)
4. Kazansky (more than 122 thousand)
5. Adler (more than 89 thousand)

Leading stations in terms of downloaded traffic in 2017:

1. Yaroslavsky (37.2 TB)
2. Leningradsky (35.8 TB)
3. Kursky (33.1 TB)
4. Samara (31.1 TB)
5. Adler (30TB)

2017

The number of Wi-Fi users at railway stations - more than 2.7 million

The number of visitors to Russian railway stations that use a single Wi-Fi network from TransTeleCom is steadily growing - there are already more than 2.7 million of them (data from August 2017). Traditionally, the volume of downloaded traffic during the vacation season increases, simultaneously with the increase in the number of passengers. In the summer months this year, about half a million people have already used Wi-Fi connections at train stations.

At the height of summer, the leader of the station rating with the largest number of Wi-Fi connections changed. In July, the first place in the number of actively "pumping" passengers was taken by the railway station Adler - more than 17,500 people used free access Internet in anticipation of the train. The top ten also included train stations,, and Moscow. St. Petersburg Novosibirsk Anapa

Most traffic via Wi-Fi in July was downloaded by passengers in the following cities:

1. Moscow (Leningradsky, Kursk, Yaroslavsky, Kazansky and Paveletsky railway stations);

2. Adler;

3. Krasnodar;

4. Novosibirsk;

5. Chita;

6. Rostov-on-Don.

The number of users of free Wi-Fi at railway stations exceeded 2 million

Already more than 2 million visitors to Russian railway stations are registered users of a single Wi-Fi network from TransTeleCom. The volume of downloaded traffic is also growing rapidly, today users received and sent about 1 Pb of data through a single network. Passengers and greeters use free Wi-Fi to exchange messages in instant messengers, search for information on the Internet and even to watch feature films online.

Traditionally, the hottest time of activity on the network was weekends and school holidays. In March, passengers in the following cities downloaded the most traffic via Wi-Fi:

1. Moscow: Leningradsky, Kursk, Yaroslavsky, Kazansky and Paveletsky railway stations - 40.1 TB;

2. Chita - 6.8 TB;

3. Samara - 6.5 TB;

4. Rostov-on-Don - 6.4 TB;

5. Krasnodar - 5.5 TB;

6. Ufa - 5.2 TB.

Most users of Wi-Fi connection were registered at the stations of Moscow (more than 162 thousand people), St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara and Novosibirsk. Since the beginning of 2017 alone, more than half a million people have become new Wi-Fi users at train stations, about 150 thousand passengers are connected to wireless access every month.

2016: TransTeleCom provides access to wireless Internet at 107 railway stations

The Directorate of Railway Stations of JSCo Russian Railways and the TransTeleCom Company have signed an additional agreement, according to which access to a wireless high-speed Internet network is provided at the 107 largest station complexes with an annual passenger traffic of more than 380 million people.

Since September 2015, free access Wi-Fi has been provided at 79 train stations in 55 regions of the country. Now 28 more stations have been added to the list Murmansk Kursk Eagle To Penza Nizhny Tagile of connected stations in Kaliningrad,,,, Izhevsk, Kirov, Murom, Rostov, Essentuki, Kislovodsk, Novorossiysk, Tambov,, Saransk, Ulyanovsk, Orenburg and ten other settlements.

"We focus on creating optimal conditions for rail passengers. transport Free Wi-Fi areas for station visitors are still one of our priority projects. Already today we are working on the possibility of equipment with wireless access to the Internet of all 353 stations of the Directorate, "commented Vitaly Votolevsky, head of the Directorate of Railway Stations of Russian Railways.

Over the year, the number of registered users in a single Wi-Fi network at Russian stations exceeded 1.5 million people. About 130 thousand passengers throughout the country are connected to it every month. The total amount of downloaded traffic at stations exceeded 658 TB, with an average of users downloading up to 50 TB of data every month. In the summer, the greatest activity of passengers was observed - downloaded traffic reached 60 TB per month.

In November, passengers in the following cities were among the most active Wi-Fi users:

1. Moscow: Kazan, Yaroslavl, Leningradsky, Paveletsky and Kursk railway stations - 15.3 TB;

2. Samara - 2.3 TB;

3. Chita - 2.2 TB;

4. Adler - 2 TB;

5. Rostov-on-Don - 1.9 TB.

To use the free Wi-Fi service at train stations, you only need to pass authorization once, in the future the passenger's device will automatically connect to the network at any station where there is Wi-Fi from TransTeleCom.

2015: Project Objectives and Start

The administrative building of OJSC RUSSIAN RAILWAY"" and 160 railway stations in 133 settlements throughout the territory Russia will be connected into a single protected virtual network VPLS to ensure the operation of corporate information systems, including an integrated integrated security system. The project is being implemented by the company. Transtelecom

As part of the agreement, TransTeleCom will provide the Directorate of Railway Stations with a network of fiber-optic communication channels, including the organization of the "last mile." The guaranteed capacity of channels in the regions will be from 30 to 200 Mbps, the channel from the Administrative Building of Russian Railways - 4 Gb/s. The channels will combine 160 train stations across the country into a single secure virtual VPLS network.

Using a secure network, the Directorate of Railway Stations, a branch of Russian Railways, is developing a project of the Integrated Integrated Security System (IKSB) at the company's station complexes. The system includes the functions of video surveillance, fire protection and technological safety, access and warning systems. The goal of the project is to integrate all technological processes into the current system and ensure prompt access to emergency services. Line units of the transport police are also provided with access to the ICSB. The image from video cameras installed in various sections of station complexes and forecourt is transmitted to the monitor in the duty unit in real time.

The VPLS network, organized by TransTeleCom, provides the Railway Station Directorate with high security for information transfer, allows you to exchange video files and messages, organize video conferencing and work together on documents and databases for employees of station complexes. Also, using the VPLS network, you can provide secure access to corporate http information servers.

"Providing railway stations with high-speed communication channels is a necessary condition for the functioning of the infrastructure of Russian Railways, and in particular, improving the level of security. An integrated integrated security system allows you to effectively control crowded places at train stations, helps you quickly respond to emergency situations and stop offenses. TransTeleCom serves one of the longest communication lines in Russia, which runs along the railway tracks, ensuring high throughput and reliability of networks, "comments Ruslan Medvedev, head of the informatization service of the Railway Station Directorate of Russian Railways.