IT infrastructure

Russo-Finnish consortium halts Siberian LTE equipment manufacturing

March 17, 2014

Rusnano, Russia’s nanotech giant, Tomsk-based Micran, a major electronics manufacturer, and Finland’s Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) are shutting down Wireless Technology Center (WTC), their joint LTE base station facility in Tomsk. Russian media have offered the lack of legal endorsement by national regulators as an explanation for the move. A year ago WTC equipment …

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Acronis has invested $10 million to open Moscow development center

December 4, 2013

Acronis, an international provider of data backup software and disaster recovery solutions, has opened a development center in Moscow, Acronis Labs, following a $10 million investment. Headed by Acronis co-founder Maxim Lyadvinsky, Acronis Labs Moscow will engage in market research and improving the efficiency of existing technologies, innovation and intellectual property protection. Acronis’ General Director …

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Russian data center receives highest Uptime Institute certification for the first time

November 19, 2014

Technoserv, a leading Russian systems integrator and IT service provider since 1992, announced last week that the design of its Technopark-Mordovia data center was certified as Tier IV Fault Tolerant by the Uptime Institute, a NY-based data center researcher and consultancy. Located in Saransk some 640km east of Moscow, the data center is now Russia’s …

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Richard Branson’s Virgin Connect acquires telecom operator in Niznhy Novgorod; “more acquisitions to come”

November 25, 2013

Trivon AG, the Switzerland-based company which does business through its subsidiaries under the Virgin Connect brand in Russia, announced today that it has acquired 100% of MegaMax, one of the leading B2B broadband and telecom operators in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The MegaMax Group has developed its own …

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Report: Russian mobile operators set to deploy and monetize LTE before the end of the decade

November 15, 2013

J’son & Partners, a leading consultancy covering Russia’s telecom and IT markets, has released an insightful research about LTE perspectives in Russia and across the world. In the medium-term perspective (5-6 years), the largest Russian mobile operators will have not only build a 4G network in accordance with the licensing requirements and their own investment …

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MegaFon and partners launch DREAM FOCL to connect Europe and Asia

November 19, 2014

MegaFon, a leading Russian telecom operator, announced late last week the launch of ‘DREAM,’ an ambitious Eurasian fiber optic communications landline project that connects Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany and Hong Kong in China. To undertake this endeavor, which has cost MegaFon 600 million rubles (about $18 million), the Russian company partnered with KazakhTelecom, a leading telecom …

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Report: Russian IaaS market to reach $250 million by 2017

October 21, 2013

Last week J’son & Partners Consulting, a leading Russian tech consulting agency, released a report on the Russian cloud IaaS solution market. For 2012, the IaaS market reached 1.24 billion rubles (approximately $41 million), up 226% from 2011, while the annual growth rate of the secondary hosting market and commercial DPC did not exceed 30%. Such high …

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Orange Business Services connects IXcellerate Moscow One Datacentre to its high-speed multi-service network

October 17, 2013

London, UK & Moscow, Russia – IXcellerate, Moscow’s premier carrier neutral datacenter, today announces that Orange Business Services, a leading global integrator of communications solutions, has established a point of presence in IXcellerate Moscow One Datacentre. This move creates an access point that connects the datacenter to Orange’s high-speed multi-service network, offering both IXcellerate and Orange …

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MTS invests $200 million in major expansion in former Soviet Union

November 19, 2014

MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator named one of the ten most valuable global telecom brands this past spring, announced last week that it will invest as much as much as $200 million for an expansion of its networks in neighboring Ukraine and in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet Union state located in Central Asia. Apparently …

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MegaFon announces over $200 million investment for 2014 Sochi Olympics

November 19, 2014

MegaFon, a leading Russian mobile operator, has announced a $130 million commitment to building and upgrading the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics’ telecommunications infrastructure. In an exchange last week with the Russian news agency 1Prime, Tigran Pogosyan, MegaFon’s deputy CEO for strategic ventures and director of the firm’s Sochi-2014 project, said that in addition to the …

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ERA-GLONASS to cover Russia by December 2013

July 11, 2013

The nationwide deployment of ERA-GLONASS, a real-time satellite-based service for reporting and responding to traffic accidents, is entering the home stretch. By August 2013, 62 more Russian regions will be connected to the system’s infrastructure, Digit.ru reported earlier this week. As a result of a tender, GLONASS, a non-profit partnership which carries out the task …

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Nokia Siemens Networks yields stake in LTE equipment manufacturer to Rusnano

November 11, 2020

Rusnano, a state-owned investment corporation focused on developing the Russian nanotechnology industry, has bought a 25% stake in the vendor of LTE equipment Wireless Technology Center (WTC) from Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the news agency Prime reported last week. Rusnano paid 330 million rubles (approximately $10 million) in the transaction which valued the joint venture …

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