📋 Tender Overview
Atlas has completed the construction of the first stage of the backbone fiber-optic communication line FOCL Transit Europe - Asia of the new generation TEA NEXT connecting the cities of Idritsa in the Pskov region and Torzhok in the Tver region. The length of the first section of the main communication line was about 560 km.During the construction of the new FOCL optical fibers of the G.654 category were used which are first used for the construction of FOCL in our country and provide the ability to organize channels up to 400 Gb s with a total bandwidth of up to 16 Tb s per pair of fibers and can also be used for all promising technologies of backbone DWDM equipment.It is planned that the TEA NEXT FOCL will connect the western and eastern borders of Russia with links to the countrys largest cities such as Vladivostok and exits to the Russia-Mongolia Russia-China borders and the coast station of submarine communication lines in Nakhodka.Rostelecom began implementing the TEA NEXT project in the summer of 2020 creating the Atlas operating company and starting construction of the first stage of the project in 2021 on the Moscow-Torzhok-St. Petersburg and Torzhok-RussiaLatvia border sections.Based on the TEA NEXT infrastructure it is planned to bring to the Russian market a fundamentally new set of services for leasing fiber-optic infrastructure to interested customers and the necessary additional resources for organizing a new generation of backbone communication networks within the Russian Federation and on the transit route between Europe and Asia. Potential customers of the TEM NEXT line will be able to rent dark fibers 2 and place their own equipment at amplification points along the route of the new FOCL.The uniqueness of the TEA NEXT project lies in the fact that on the basis of Atlas LLC and the new FOCL in 2025-2050 the largest operator of backbone network infrastructure in the Russian Federation will be created capable of providing fiber-optic infrastructure resources that are not available in any of the existing land lines of this scale on the territory of the Russian Federation. At the same time they are widely used in the business models of developed telecom markets and maritime submarine intercontinental communication lines and are becoming increasingly popular with customers interested in organizing new generations of communication networks. The combination of new geography and business model will allow the project to form a new market for the provision of fiber-optic infrastructure in the Russian Federation as a service for Russian and international customers to compete directly with maritime systems through which the vast majority of traffic from Southeast Asia to Europe is currently transmitted. The project will also meet the needs for FOCL infrastructure for the development of the Russian economy including for government programs up to 2050 and will create an incentive for the development of the radio electronic products market.
