Rostelecom expands Far East trunk channel carrying capacity.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - Rostelecom has expanded the
carrying capacity of the trunk communications channel in the Far East by
50 percent.
Users in Khabarovsk Territory and in the Jewish Autonomous Region
will be able to enjoy a greater speed of traffic in the Internet, an
official in the press service of the Rostelecom-Far East Company told
Itar-Tass on Thursday.
The need to expand the channel's carrying capacity has been prompted
by the mounting usage of Internet traffic in those areas of the Far East.
According to the Company, only a year ago, the number of users
operating in the network simultaneously was not more than 24 percent of
the general number of clients; about 28 percent three months ago, and over
40 percent now. In the process, traffic passing via the Rostelecom network
has increased by almost 90 percent over the past year.
At the same time the Company is busy laying new communications
channels in the Far East. A new optic-fiber trunk line, over 700 km long,
is being brought into being between Khabarovsk Territory and Sakhalin
Island. Its aggregate carrying capacity will be 50 Gb/sec to transmit the
traditional telephone, Internet, and interactive television traffic.
Populated areas will be connected up to the network at a rate of 3.5
Gb/sec. The construction of the new line will enable the inhabitants of
Khabarovsk Territory and Sakhalin Region to receive not only a more
reliable and qualitative communication but also a full spectrum of modern
telecommunication services.