MegaFon to register in Stockholm

Operator MegaFon announced the point of presence in one of the largest international switching centers in Stockholm. Telecity an area in Stockholm, which has placed equipment MegaFon, one of the largest in Europe, along with similar centers in Frankfurt-am-Main, London, Amsterdam. This project, like previous ones (the organization of points of presence in Frankfurt, Amsterdam), was carried out in collaboration with New Telco (Germany), which provides solutions for telecom operators. Having our own site in Stockholm, and additional external channels of a total bandwidth of 60 Gbit / will improve connectivity with the network of MegaFon network with leading international operators by establishing direct joints (NNI - Network-to-Network Interconnection). In particular at the new site is organized by the joints with companies such as Level3, TeliaSonera, Global Crossing, PCCW. Direct connections with foreign operators significantly increase the possibility of MegaFon International Organization of virtual networks and channels of communication for the corporate sector. In addition, the opening of new points of presence provides an opportunity to further optimize MegaFon costs for communications with the international segment of the Internet without going through middlemen in Russia. Recall that Megafon has the most extensive in Russia, the digital terrestrial backbone network to non-state long distance operators with a total length of more than 110 thousand kilometers. MegaFon (together with its subsidiary company Synterra) has already placed equipment in international locations Internet Exchange in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, as well as in Russian traffic exchange points in Moscow (MSK-IX), St. Petersburg (SPB-IX) , Novosibirsk (NSK-IX) and Samara (SMR-IX). In addition, the company continues to work to increase the coherence of the network: organizing direct connections with the world's largest operators as Level3, TeliaSonera, Global Crossing, Telecom Italia Sparkle, developed partnerships with national carriers and abroad - Lattelecom (Latvia), TEO ( Lithuania), Elion (Estonia), Beltelecom (Belarus), Azertelekom (Azerbaijan), Kazakhtelecom (Kazakhstan).