OREANDA-NEWS. December 16, 2009. Company TTK has concluded the next upgrade of its IP-MPLS-backbone Points of Presence (PoPs) in Moscow. The two T1600 routers by Juniper Networks were installed at mutually reserved PoPs, with each unit supporting 80 10 Gigabit ports, resulting in a doubling of capacity at each PoP, reported the press-centre of TTK.

TTK was the first Russian backbone operator to install Juniper routers on its network, as a response to the exponential growth of the traffic going through the internet, with the first installation taking place at the TTK’s London PoP last year. Each unit is capable of processing data flows of a combined speed of 1,6 Terabits per second, satisfying the growing demand for the delivery of data flows of any type including high-end applications such as streaming video and p2p interconnections. In addition, T1600 units are among the industry’s most efficient, with low energy consumption rates.

“As expected, the amount of IP-traffic going through TTK’s backbone this year grew three-fold, and is expected to continue its upward trend in the years to come. These changes were designed to preemptively accompany this shift, through the upgrade of our core MPLS-network and the installation of Juniper equipment at our key Points of Presence,” said Nikolai Didenko, TTK’s First Vice President for development. “In Moscow and London, the PoPs were upgraded with T1600 routers; in Saint-Petersburg we are installing the equally capable MX960 router units by the same manufacturer”.