Tele2 opens 3,000 kilometer fiber-optic data network

Telecom service provider Tele2 AB today said it inaugurated a new 3,000 kilometer fiber-optic data network between Tallinn and Frankfurt to offer better speed and capacity.

The new fiber-optic data channel that allows capacity up to 9.6 Tbit/s is the first encrypted direct connection from Estonia to Central Europe. Tele2 Estonia has built the network on high-voltage transmission lines and gas pipelines.

Its key nodes are located in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Berlin and Frankfurt. Currently, Tele2 is also building connections to Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Helsinki, which will extend the data pipeline to 4.500 kilometers.

Tele2 AB

Niklas Sonkin, executive vice president Central Europe and Eurasia, Tele2 AB, said: “The new Tallinn-Frankfurt data network connects the Tele2 Group’s existing data routes with the European data hotspot in Frankfurt.”

The data pipeline between Tallinn and Frankfurt can transmit the monthly usage of all Tele2 Estonia mobile Internet clients within one minute and mediate 118 million phone calls simultaneously.

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