OREANDA-NEWS. Rostelecom, Russia’s national long-distance telecommunications operator, and Beltelecom, national telecommunications operator of Belarus, completed cabling and joined optic fibers to construct the additional access line from Russia to Belarus.
 
The just completed first stage of the project included fiber-optic cabling from Russian town of Yartsevo through Velizh to the Russia-Belarus state border. The new cross border fiber-optic line to be launched will stretch from Yartsevo (Russia) to Vitebsk (Belorus).

The throughput capacity of this high-speed terrestrial channel based on the DWDM and STM technology will be 400 Gbps with the planned further increase.