OREANDA-NEWS. December 20, 2011. Capacity of transit routes through the Republic of Belarus organized by Beltelecom in the beginning of December 2011 in Russian and European direction exceeded the milestone of 100 Gbps, reported the press-centre of Beltelecom.

The Agreement for traffic transit through the territory of the Republic of Belarus was signed with leading Russian and Polish telecommunications companies.

RUE Beltelecom places emphasis on the expansion and modernization of the FOLS, backbone network and data transmission network using DWDM equipment of new generation with higher throughput capacity.

Over the last year the capacity of transit streams through the territory of the Republic of Belarus was increased from 37 to 105 Gbps – more than in two and a half times.

In 2012 Beltelecom plans to lease the transit streams with a capacity up to 1 Tbps.