TransTelekom

TransTelekom (Russian: ТрансТелеКо́m (ТТК)) is a major telecommunications company in Russia that owns one of the largest networks in the world of fiber optical cables. The company is a full subsidiary of Russian national railway operator, Russian Railways.

History

TransTelekom was founded February 27, 1997 at the initiative of the Ministry of Railways (the predecessor of Russian Railways for construction of digital backbone network for the needs of Russian Railways.

For three years the TTK built ROW railways fiber network length of 45 thousand km, connecting 974 settlements in 71 regions of Russia. October 13, 2001 TTK officially started commercial operation of its backbone network.

In April 2002, the TTK went on the market and support services to the organization of virtual private networks (VPN) technology and MPLS IP-transit. Among the first customers was TTK Internet service provider Corbina. In 2003, revenues increased by 2.5 times to 100 million U.S. dollars, the number of corporate clients has reached 1 million in October 2003 TTK was awarded RBC Company of the Year in the field of telecommunications.

In 2004, the TTK took 40% of the market rent intercity communication channels, 12% of the market rent of land international channels, 30% market share in the segment of technology IP VPN, allowing users to create multi- enterprise networks, as well as 45% of the regional market of the main access to the Internet.

In February 2005, the TTK became the largest party in terms of the European Internet Exchange London Internet Exchange (LINX). In July 2005, the TTK became the fifth operator in Russia, received the right to provide long-distance services (after Rostelecom, Tsentrinfokoma, Golden Telecom and MTT).

In May 2006, TTK upgraded and put into operation a network technology DWDM.

In December 2007, the TTK and the Japanese company NTT Communications completed the construction of undersea fiber- optic cable system HSCS (Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System, « Cabling System Hokkaido - Sakhalin" ) length of 570 km. On HSCS was assigned the function of an alternative transcontinental highway for data delivery from Europe to Asia (formerly the data exchange between Europe and Asia were mainly used line, laid on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.