Deutsche Telekom and Lattelecom Set up a New Telecommunications Route between Western Europe and Russia via the Baltic States
January 20 2012 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
January 20, 2012: Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales
& Solutions (ICSS), the wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG
and Lattelecom today announced that they have signed an agreement
to jointly deploy the Baltic Telecommunications Highway. This
Highway is deemed to serve the increasing Internet-traffic demands
between Western Europe and Russia via the Baltic States.
The parties will cooperate to set-up a joint
fiber-infrastructure across the Baltics, Poland and Germany, which
will deploy a state-of-the-art network technology to allow
transmission speed of up to n * 10 Gbps. The Baltic Highway will
provide first class quality transmission with unprecedented low
latency. Beyond their respective home-countries, the parties will
also make significant investments in Poland and Lithuania to
complement the Baltic Highway.
“By partnering with Lattelecom, we bring businesses in the
Baltic States and beyond access to a European next generation
network. The Baltic states as well as Russia have witnessed a
substantial surge in demand for network connectivity, and through
the Baltic Highway we will jointly provide enhanced connectivity
for the region”, said Holger Magnussen, Senior Vice President
International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS).
„With increasing volume and diversity of the Internet content as
well as various data exchange services, the Internet data exchange
consumption continues growing throughout the world. Therefore
Lattelecom early on the way is setting up a powerful data
transmission highway which in the future will help Lattelecom in
satisfying the ever growing need for high Internet speed of
customers. Baltic Telecommunications Highway is a project of
international importance as it will ensure Russian and other
neighboring state telecommunications operators with the
geographically shortest route for data flow to Europe and the rest
of the world,” explains Lattelecom Chairman of the Management
Board and CEO Juris Gulbis.
About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales &
Solutions (ICSS)
International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), an integral
part of Deutsche Telekom’s International Businesses unit within the
Europe organization, is the global communications enabler of the
Deutsche Telekom Group and more than 700 external customers
worldwide. As one of the largest carriers in the world, ICSS
provides global voice communication, Internet connectivity to
millions of eyeballs, and global roaming and messaging on next
generation platforms, as well as smart content distribution, media
exchange, and virtual carrier solutions. The international
customers of ICSS experience seamless service provisioning,
including global reach and the highest quality. The variety of
solutions provided by ICSS is based on an expanding ultramodern
infrastructure: Deutsche Telekom’s international network.
For further information see www.telekom-icss.com.
About Lattelecom
Lattelecom group is the leading telecommunications service
provider in Latvia offering telecommunications solutions for
households, small and medium enterprises, state and municipal
institutions as well as corporate customers.
Lattelecom group is one of the most experienced North-East
European companies, which provides integrated and innovative
telecommunications, television, IT, and business process
outsourcing services supported by all the group companies.
For further information see www.lattelecom.lv.
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