Backbone provider RETN and European data center operator DEAC has launched interconnection.

Moscow, October 11, 2012

European data center operator DEAC and backbone provider RETN have set up a dedicated route between DEAC optical city ring and RETN’s pan European network. New links allows to reduce the time of delivering VPN services to more than 100 points-of-presence of RETN network. Now it’s possible to deliver data traffic between largest data centres in Europe, North America and South-East Asia, including Russia, Ukraine, Baltic States and other East European countries. The link was set up in Riga, at LVRTC platform communication node, current available bandwidth is 10 Gbps.

«As known – attractiveness and availability of backbone network is determined as the quantity and quality of the partner’s networks. So, cooperation with European data centers DEAC very interesting for us.

In turn, RETN’s benefits such as quick response to changing customer needs, while maintaining a reasonable price for services in any country where we operate has became available for DEAC customers. All of this is achieved through technological homogeneity of the network infrastructure with a single commercial policy in all the companies within the RETN group of companies», – says commercial director of RetnNet Vladimir Taran.

«With rapid growth of complex enterprise-level projects based on DEAC European data centers infrastructure, it is very important for the customer to have reliable high-speed channels between offices in Russia, DEAC data centers in Riga and DEAC points-of-presence in other European cities. By providing L2 VPN dedicated channels DEAC can guarantee their customers uninterruptible access to the data with guaranteed speed and minimum possible access delay, which is really important while working via “thin client” model with private corporate clouds. Gateway node 10G realization allows us bring into operation customers communications channels in the shortest time. We will continue to develop such cooperation models with main line operators for further connectivity improvement of our network infrastructure”, says DEAC CEO Andris Gailitis.

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About DEAC

DEAC – European data center operator with several years of experience in Russia. DEAC has points-of-presence in Baltics’, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Russia and Ukraine. That gives an opportunity for the customer to collocate its IT infrastructure most efficiently in European Union territory, to create maximum security for the business by diversifying risks and also lower IT costs up to 40% within 3-5 years.

DEAC data centers infrastructure is provided with 24×7 multilingual technical support, and wide range of DEAC IT solutions allows customers to plan their businesses development more easily.

Today more than 2500 customers from 40 countries trust DEAC!

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About RETN

RETN is a backbone provider offering international IP transit, Capacity and VPN services to large Corporates, Carriers and ISPs over its own pan-European cross-border optic network.

Since its establishment in 2002 the company has enjoyed a strong growth as a provider of IP transit, constantly upgrading the capacity and increasing the number of PoPs.

Now RETN has its optical network in 24 countries over Europe, Asia and America concentrating most of its backbones and PoPs in Russia and Europe. The homogeneous cross-border infrastructure of RETN`s pan-European DWDM and IP network has a considerable bandwidth on the four routes between Russia and the West with a current utilized capacity reaching 1.0 Tbps on each direction. The RETN network provides a considerable part of the international traffic exchange in Russia and some other countries of the Commonwealth.