Rostelecom: the speed of VOLS Chelyabinsk - Khabarovsk has grown 14 times in 10 years

2020: Doubling internet traffic every two years

The volume of Internet traffic doubles every two years. We noted a particularly sharp jump when the country introduced a self-isolation regime caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, said in May 2020 Sergey Gusev, vice president, director of the macro-regional branch of Ural, PJSC Rostelecom.

"As a result of several large-scale upgrades of the Chelyabinsk - Khabarovsk line over the past ten years, the maximum data transfer rate increased from 3 Tbit/s in 2010 to 40 Tbit/s in 2020."

The increase in the data transfer rate on the highway by 14 times since launch has increased the volume of transmitted traffic between Europe and Asia, reducing the time to access foreign servers on which international Internet resources are located.

Such a proactive increase in bandwidth helped the company maintain network performance and quality of services during the COVID-19 epidemic, when many people who remained in self-isolation began to actively use online training services, TV, media portals.

2010: Network launch after 5 years of construction

The fiber-optic transit highway Chelyabinsk - Khabarovsk, connecting the Far East with the European part of Russia, was launched in 2010. The highway became a joint project of Rostelecom and FGC UES, construction continued for 5 years.

Main network of Rostelecom in 2014

10,000 km were laid. optics connecting the cities of Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Tyumen, and providing stable fast Internet access in these cities, as well as increasing the volume of transit of international traffic through Russia.