OREANDA-NEWS. July 13, 2011. TEO LT, AB, the largest provider of integrated telecommunication, IT and TV services in Lithuania, installed two new fiber-optic connections with foreign operators in Sweden and Poland and increased the total speed of the international Internet traffic almost one and a half times – up to 66.5 Gigabits per second (Gb/s).

The new international connections were installed as a result of an increase in the Internet traffic of TEO customers. In May, users of the ZEBRA Internet were given the opportunity to download information from foreign servers at the same speed as in Lithuania.

According to Arnoldas Zhukauskas, Director of Carrier Business Department of TEO, over the last 10 years TEO has increased the international Internet traffic about 500 times. “At the beginning of 2002 it was only 128 Mbps – twice less than the current maximum speed per ZEBRA Internet user”, - A. Zhukauskas said.

By means of its two additional 10 Gb/s connections, TEO interconnected its networks with the networks of Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s largest telecommunications company, in Stockholm and Warsaw. Earlier this year, the international Internet traffic accounted for approximately 45 Gb/s. It is planned that by the end of this year it will increase by another 10 Gb/s to about 77 Gb/s.

To ensure the maximum speed of data transmission, reliability of services, and communication reservation possibilities, TEO has installed duplicated international communication channels with all neighbouring countries: Poland, Latvia, Kaliningrad region, and Belarus. The Company’s networks are interconnected by a submarine cable with Internet access providers in Sweden. TEO is the only company in the country that has a direct connection with VimpelCom, one of Russia's largest Internet service providers, ensuring faster and more reliable connection with Russia.

According to the data of the Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania, at the end of March 2011, TEO international communication channels accounted for almost 50 per cent of the total traffic of all Lithuanian operators.