Current Internet Status and Trends in Russia'

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Current Internet Status and Trends in Russia.
Brief Survey and Analysis
Dr.Sci. Andrei S. Mendkovich asm_at_free.net Dr.
Alexander I. Rusakov alex_at_free.net
Institute of the Information Society
Academic and Research Network FREEnet
Central and Eastern European Networking
Association
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Brief History of Russian computer networks
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Computer networking in USSR/Russia
International IPv6 line - 2001
MSK-6IX - 2000
IPv6 SubTLA (FREEnet) - 1999
1999 - IPv6 address allocation started
Connection to 6bone - 1997
National backbone RBnet- 1996
1995 - vBNS
FREEnet, RELCOM - 1991
SUEARN - December 1990
.SU TLD - September 1990
IASnet (X.25) 1987
1986 - Internet (NSFnet)
1981 - BITNET
Government decision on ????? - State data
transport system - 1970
1969 - ARPANET
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Current Status of Russian Internet

• Competition at city markets
• Liberalisation of long distance
  telecommunication market
• Existence of technically advanced AR networks

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Number of Russian Internet Users
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Competition at the city markets of the Internet
services
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Liberalisation of Russian longhawl channel market

• Rostelecom
• Gaztelecom" ? Gazcom (Gazprom)
• TransTeleCom (MPS)
• Enifcom (RAO UES)

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Russian Academic and Research Networks
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The Information Age is about people and not just
about technology. In this the academic community
has a special responsibility and a special role
to play. It has to be at the forefront of the
creation of the information society both as a
driving force and as a testbed.
CEENet Tartu Declaration Tartu, Estonia 31st of
May 1997
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Trans-Atlantic lines capacity (AR networks)
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National Network Infrastructure for Research and
Education
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Russian Backbone Network RBNet
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FREEnet Academic and Research Network
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Academic and Research network FREEnet
Backbone and regional networks

• 14 regions of Russia and Belorus Republic
• over 800 organizations
• over 50 000 computers
• Total international traffic about 30 Mbit/s
• Out/In ratio 54

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FREEnet
Implementation of new technologies and
services 1996-2001

• ???, GigabitEthernet, etc
• large scale network video conferences
• IPv6.

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ATM-network IST98/Global360
Intelsat 160E
Eutelsat IIF3
Main Site (providing programme input and
questioning)
2M
Interactive Site (questioning enabled)
Significant interconnection point
Eutelsat
Watchpoint Site
2M, TDMA
CEC, Brussels, via MBONE
All links at 4Mbits/sec unless marked otherwise
Tokyo CRL
Barcelona UPC
Aveiro CET
2M, SMS
Moscow IOC
Yaroslavl YAR
Public MBONE
FREEnet NOC
Global-Russia
Other Spanish sites
Amsterdam
Novgorod
Krasnodar
Aflenz
Yaroslavl
Kemerovo
G360 Control Centre Studio GSL
Novosibirsk
Saransk
Madrid UPM
Athens DEM
TEN-34
Linz JKU
S.-Peterburg
2M
Kiev KSN
Tele-conference Room TEL
Budapest BUD
Basel ASP
Digital Theatre DTV
Ljubljana IJS
Minsk ACC
Plenary Hall
CERN
Berlin DTB
2M
Vienna Conference Centre
ISDN
Poznan POZ
Sion
Uni Lausanne LAU
Frankfurt
Leuk
Ottawa CRC
Uni Brno BRN
Reykjavik ITR
Prague CES
Berkeley UCB
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MSK-6IX
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Russian IPv6 Forum
www.ipv6.ru
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European IPv6 Projects
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CEE6IX