Transit Europe-Asia (TEA)

The TEA service allows customers to take advantage of the shortest capacity transit route between Europe and Asia via the territory of Russia. This route is provided by means of Rostelecom DWDM network and DWDM facilities of our partners in Europe and Asia. As the route is fully terrestrial, TEA provides highly reliable service with low MTTR values. Capacities from N*64 K до STM-64 are supported as standard offer as well as higher speeds are available on customer request. TEA circuits are provided on one-stop-shopping basis and under a single SLA that covers Rostelecom part of the circuit and also partner networks.

The service is protocol insensitive and can transport any combination of voice, data, video and IP applications. TEA provides a full range of options to transfer data of your delay-critical applications along with the main values for telecom services such as reliability and quality of service.

TEA Benefits

Low Round Trip Delay
Fully terrestrial - significantly higher reliability statistics in comparison with sea cables
Reliability and redundancy
Low MTTR
Supports transparent transfer of voice, video, data
Capacity available from N*64K to STM-64
One Stop Shopping (OSS)
Short-term and long-term lease
Single NOC

Round trip delay, London - Hong Kong:
TEA – 190 ms
Trans Pacific – 320 ms
Trans Indian - 300 ms

Round trip delay:
London – Tokio 194 ms
Stockholm – Hong Kong 188 ms
Stockholm – Beijing 156 ms

SLA:

Availability for a protected circuit is 99.9%
Availability for an unprotected circuit is 99.7%
24х7х365 Helpdesk
MTTR equals 4 hours
Notification of any planned work that will cause service outage in the Transmission Channel is with a minimum of 7 (seven) Business Days in advance
The service window for planned work is Saturday, 22.00 - 02.00 UTC (which suites Europe and Asia Customers' demands)
Notification of emergency works performance is no less than twenty four (24) hours in advance.