Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) enables connection of regional branches and offices of a business enterprise by a single secure private corporate IP-based network supporting a full range of telecom services with a guaranteed quality and high availability.
IP VPNs, ensuring delivery of various traffic types with guaranteed quality have been widely adopted by the market for quite a long time and are recognized as an efficient means of creating a common corporate information environment.
The service
allows all branches of a company to use centralized IT services hosted at HQ: e-mail, databases, electronic workflows (ERP/CRM), information portals, etc.;
enables a transport for corporate telephony systems supporting a single consistent internal numbering plan;
provides capabilities for holding virtual videoconferencing meetings between remote offices.
Service features
Access speed: up to 10 Gbps per each connection port;
Various network topologies supported: “star” topology (hub and spokes with a single hub for all remote offices), full mesh (any-to-any connections), custom connectivity;
3 classes of service (CoS) available for traffic marking :
Business Priority (used for delay and loss critical multimedia and voice traffic);
Business Critical (used for applications traffic, sensitive to packet loss and network response time, like corporate CRM/ERP systems);
Normal Priority (all other data traffic non-sensitive to packet loss and delay variation, like file exchange, e-mail, Internet);
Customers are able to self-manage the traffic CoS by marking it with relevant CoS labels;
Port profile options:
Highest: up to 100% of the bandwidth available for any of the following classes of traffic: Business Priority, Business Critical, Normal Priority;
Priority: up to 100% of the bandwidth available for any of the following classes of traffic: Business Critical, Normal Priority;
Regular: up to 100% of the bandwidth available for Normal Priority traffic;
Flexible billing options are available for each connection port:
volumes based billing depending on amount of transmitted information;
flat rate fixed amount charge, regardless of the transmitted information volumes;
For volumes based billing charges are differentiated depending on the transmission’s geographical destination (zone based billing) and traffic CoS;
Turn-key service delivery, including provision of access lines (“last mile”) and supply of end-user equipment (CPE).
Why Rostelecom?
Ubiquitous connectivity
The widest footprint of Rostelecom network. Rostelecom’s own core IP/MPLS network stretches over 40 thousand km;
Some 200 access points are available for connection to IP/MPLS network located in all federal administrative districts of Russia, as well as at international Traffic Exchanges beyond Russia: in Stockholm, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong;
Core IP/MPLS network throughput: 1 Tbps;
Capacity of external upstreams: 200 Gbps.
High availability and guaranteed quality of service
IP/MPLS network is based on most advanced equipment currently used in Russia: Juniper T1600 core routers with throughput up to 1.6 Tbps; Juniper MX960, Juniper MX480, Juniper М320, Juniper M40 edge routers;
Guaranteed QoS is ensured due to using Rostelecom’s own backbone resources and constant expansion of IP/MPLS network’s capacity;
High reliability and availability is attained by the ring-type protection of Rostelecom’s core IP/MPLS network;
Additional Service Level Agreements (SLA) are signed with customers to guarantee 99.7% service availability (not more that 130 minutes of outages monthly);
Constant real time network monitoring is performed;
Round-the-clock (24x7) English-speaking customer support service is available.
Security and data protection
High degree of data protection is achieved by employing standardized MPLS mechanisms, where all virtual private channels are separated from each other to guarantee complete protection of traffic against unauthorized access;
Rostelecom’s IP/MPLS network is officially certified by the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control of Russia as the packet switched network with increased means of information security and prevention of unauthorized data access.
Even more
Several services subscription opportunity, using a single customer connection port. For instance, outgoing domestic long-distance and international VoIP calls, Internet access, data center services and VPN can be provided over a single Ethernet port with service separation by means of Vlan;
