OREANDA-NEWS. June 07, 2010. TEO LT, AB, the largest provider of integrated telecommunication, IT and TV services in Lithuania, installed two new optical connections with foreign operators and doubled the total speed of the international Internet traffic – up to 45 Gigabits per second (Gb/s).
 
The new international connections were installed to enable TEO customers to have access to the several times faster international Internet. By the end of this year, TEO plans to increase the speed of the international Internet traffic up to approximately 50 Gb/s. Earlier this year, the speed of the international Internet traffic was approximately 22.9 Gb/s.
 
By means of its additional 10 Gb/s connectors, TEO interconnected its networks with Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s largest international Internet providers. In May, a 10 Gb/s connection was installed with AMSIX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), the Europe’s largest Internet exchange of international operators in Amsterdam. TEO has interconnected its networks with DE-CIX, the central, international Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
 
TEO is the only company in the country that only has a direct connection with one of the largest Russian Internet service providers, Sovintel, ensuring faster and more reliable connection with Russia.
 
According to Arnoldas Zhukauskas, Director of Carrier Business Department of TEO, the Company’s international Internet traffic grows about double annually. “We are constantly increasing both local and international bandwidth for our customers and we forecast similar trends of the international Internet traffic growth in the future”, - A. Zhukauskas said
 
At the end of 2009, TEO international communication channels accounted for more than 50 percent of the total traffic of all Lithuanian operators.

To ensure the maximum speed of data transmission, reliability of services, and communication reservation possibilities, TEO has installed international communication channels with all neighbouring countries – Poland, Latvia, Kaliningrad region, and Belarus. The Company’s networks are interconnected by a submarine cable with Internet access providers in Sweden.