OREANDA-NEWS. On November 14, 2008 Companies COMSTAR-United TeleSystems (JSC COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, Kvazar-Micro (from 2009 will operate under brand SITRONICS Information Technologies), one of the leading system integrators working in Eastern Europe and CIS countries, and AMT-GROUP, leading Russian system integrator, declared about completion of construction of multiservice data transmission network based on NGN (Next Generation Network) solutions for LLC COMSTAR-Ukraine, subsidiary company of COMSTAR-UTS in Ukraine, reported the press-centre of Kvazar-Micro.
 
Within the project scope specialists of Kvazar-Micro and AMT-GROUP constructed transport multiservice communication network that enables COMSTAR-Ukraine to expand significantly range of services for its clients. Particularly, they created backbone network Kyiv-Odessa and two metro-networks in these two cities.

On this basis COMSTAR-UTS will be able to provide complex of services Triple Play for subscribers of Kyiv and Odessa, as well as services for corporate clients for organization of virtual private networks, IP telephony, providing of high-speed Internet access. Project implementation was completed in 7 months.

Currently the backbone network is put into commercial operation; subscribers and traffic are gradually transferred to new city networks. Even today in Odessa COMSTAR-Ukraine connects subscribers-natural persons by FTTH (Fiber-to-the-House Home) technology and provides services of broadband Internet and IP-TV, and in near future such possibilities will be offered to subscribers in Kyiv.
 
Hardware of transport network (routers on the level of network core and city networks by Cisco) currently is located at service sites in Kyiv and Odessa. The new network can be basis for deployment of WiMAX network to provide services of wireless high-speed Internet access.
 
"Transport communication network shall be basis for further growth of communications operator that plans to provide services on a nationwide scale. Availability of such network shall allow not only to expand range of services provided and increase quality of communication and data transfer, but also to reduce significantly costs for traffic transfer, - stated Alexandr Kirillov, Vice-president for technologies, JSC COMSTAR-UTS. – NGN backbone multiservice network is core for creation of single telecommunication network COMSTAR in Ukraine and later on it will connect all cities of the company presence".
 
"Due to introduction at the market of new services sought-for by the clients, telecommunication companies successfully compete for share of market. One of the prospective directions is providing of high-speed fixed and mobile Internet. Solutions implemented by our company that has extensive experience of implementation of innovative projects in telecommunication sector enable operators to go to the new level of providing of sought-for services to the clients",- says Serhii Tarasenko, CTO, SITRONICS Information Technologies (Kvazar-Micro) in Ukraine.
 
"This project utilized cutting edge technology solutions, and we can literally say that constructed NGN-network does not have analogues in Ukraine. Meeting of deadlines for implementation of the extremely complex technical solution became possible due to well-defined organization and interaction of the companies’ specialists" - says Alexandr Fedoros, Director of CIS countries department, Amy-GROUP.