Juniper Networks announced that it has provided a major infrastructure upgrade to Russia’s largest digital services provider, Rostelecom.
The contract is a large scale modernization using Juniper Networks’ MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform and PTX Series Packet Transport Routers to improve one of the key communication transport backbones across Russia.
Rostelecom is a major customer for Juniper’s infrastructure and regional communication networks across Russia. The upgrade enables the modernization of Rostelecom’s original network with the MX960 and PTX10008, which have already successfully performed during peak demand from the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and Universiade 2019 (The World University Games).
Rostelecom has renewed its service agreement for three years with Juniper’s best in class services support for more than 14,000 network nodes. With this agreement, Rostelecom will improve network performance with technical support, as Juniper’s resident engineers are located in different regions and they will adapt configuration to get best performance from network, and also improve its processes in its branch offices. Rostelecom aims to mitigate risk, getting support in case of outages and will have a recovery plan in place.
Vadim Nikonov, Director of Backbone Networks Department, Rostelecom
Our main priority was to upgrade to equipment that is highly reliable under harsh operating conditions and a high traffic load.
Yarob Sakhnini, VP, Sales, Emerging Markets, EMEA, Juniper Networks
This was a major infrastructure project, resulting in a versatile modernization upgrade that is already delivering positive results based on Rostelecom’s objectives.
