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- From: BUDD@CSPGAS11.BITNET (Richard Budd)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Internet Services in Former USSR
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:42:34 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 869, Message 4 of 8
-
- There was a question several days back about Internet Facilities in
- the former Soviet Union and whether WorldNews was being received
- there. An excerpt from a recent article written for the RIPE
- Connectivity Working Group could answer that question.
-
- My apologies for being unable to reproduce the original posting in
- TELECOM Digest, but I probably erased it sometime back.
-
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-
- The 9.6 kbit/s leased line from Moscow to Copenhagen, Denmark which
- used to connected the EARN node in Moscow to the EARN/BITNET network
- has been replaced by a dial-up link to Stockholm due to funding
- problems.
-
- A considerable effort undertaken by the RELCOM networking organization
- has brought e-mail connectivity to several thousands of sites all over
- the former Soviet Union. The growth of the network was several 100% a
- year. RELCOM has been operating some IP links in the Moskow and St.
- Petersburg areas and in other communities (Novosibirsk Barnaul in
- Altai). Other national IP connections are expected to connect Ukraine,
- Siberia, St. Petersburg, Soviet Far East, and other regions to setup a
- kernel of a nation wide IP backbone. The whole network has about 60
- regional centres, some of which connect more than 500 sites. RELCOM's
- international traffic is split over two dial-up lines, one to the
- Finish EUnet backbone and one into the central EUnet node in
- Amsterdam. Both operate as gateways on application level. The rapidly
- growing volume of international mail traffic makes the need for a
- medium speed IP channel to Europe urgent. Part of the international
- traffic is carried by the filtered IP line to AlterNet.
-
- The first EARN node started its operation in Moscow late in 1991, but
- the increasing availability of EARN services is still expected. An
- e-mail gateway now exists between RELCOM DEMOS and SUEARN. SUEARN
- also provides international mail relay services for FREENET, a
- national research IP network which interconnects some 45 institutes of
- the Academy of Sciences mostly in the Moskow area with international
- connections to Jaroslavl and Baku.
-
- The current situation has been badly affected by the split of RELCOM
- into two independent entities (RELCOM RelTeam Ldt. and RELCOM DEMOS).
- Each of them holds a part of CIS network users and part of their
- international connectivity. While RELCOM RelTeam Ldt. has inherited
- the RELCOM's membership in EUnet, RELCOM DEMOS seems to position
- itself as a partner of AlterNet in CIS. Negotiations are still
- underway to find a cooperative approach to national and international
- connectivity.
-
- Contact persons:
-
- Valery Bardin <fox@ussr.eu.net> - EUnet - RELCOM
- Misha Popov <popov@hq.demos.su> - EUnet - RELCOM Demos
- Andrej Mendkovich <mend@suearn2.bitnet> - CIS EARN director
- Nickolay M.Saukh <nms@ussr.eu.net> - EUnet - RELCOM
- Igor Sviridov <sia%lot.cs.kiev.ua@relay.ussr.eu.net> - EUnet - Ukraine contact.
- Oleg Tabarovsky <olg@ussr.eu.net> - EUnet - RELCOM
- Dima Volodin <dvv@hq.demos.su> - EUnet - RELCOM Demos
-
- Prague School of Economics e-mail : Milan.Sterba@vse.cs
-
- I have the whole article on file. It is a survey of network
- connections and services available in every country in Central and
- Eastern Europe. It is quite a long article - over 900 lines. Pat may
- have to put out a special issue of the Digest to accommodate it.
-
-
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