Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, and Lattelecom recently announced that they have signed an agreement to jointly deploy the Baltic Telecommunications Highway.
The highway is slated to serve the increasing Internet-traffic between Western Europe and Russia via the Baltic States.
The parties will cooperate to establish a joint fiber-infrastructure across the Baltics, Poland and Germany, which will deploy a state-of-the-art network technology to allow transmission speeds of up to n * 10 Gbps. The Baltic Highway will provide first class quality transmission with unprecedented low latency, both the companies claimed.
“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.
“With the 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 … is setting up a powerful data transmission highway which in the future will help it in satisfying the ever growing need for high Internet speed of customers,” Lattelecom Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, Juris Gulbis, explained.
Gulbis further stated that Baltic Telecommunications Highway is a project of international importance as it will give Russian and other neighboring state telecommunications operators the geographically shortest route for data flow to Europe and the rest of the world.
Beyond their respective home countries, the companies will also make significant investments in Poland and Lithuania to complement the Baltic Highway.
