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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:20 am
Nikolay Metlyuk, CEO of Piter I X LLC, the owner of the Piter-IX traffic exchange point, emphasized that the problems with YouTube do not affect any operator that is included in the Piter-IX network on a paid basis, thanks to its junction with Google in Frankfurt. "This junction is independent of Google's infrastructure in Russia, is not loaded, and the capacity is free. To receive Google traffic without interruption, you need to be a Piter-IX participant with access to the Frankfurt location. If any operator does not yet have a direct session with our Route Server in Europe, we are ready to quickly set it up within a day," Nikolay Metlyuk summarized.
Dmitry Petrov does not consider senegal whatsapp resourceRostelecom's announcement fatal. He noted that if the operator cannot receive Google traffic from the nearest cache server, it will receive it from another one, which may be located, for example, in Europe. "This is bad for the operator's economy, but to say that this will lead to a global slowdown in traffic is an exaggeration. This will have the greatest impact on networks that do not have enough network capacity for routing. For example, if Google servers in Rostelecom fail, then the traffic will go through the company's foreign channels, and if they are not ready for this, then degradation will begin, but if there is enough bandwidth, then there will be no problems," the head of Comfortel concluded.
A top manager in the backbone division of one of the "big four" mobile operators cited another mass service with heavy content as an example: "Telegram serves all of Europe, Russia, and the former USSR from a single node in Amsterdam, and no one even thinks about any particular degradation in quality, except in cases of overloading their servers. Therefore, it is unclear why we can experience problems with the quality of access to Google services, whose CDN is hundreds of times more powerful. If something is jammed somewhere, traffic comes from the nearest nodes."
The head of the inter-operator business at one of the Russian backbone operators proposed a strategy that guarantees the quality of any mass Internet services: "We need to promptly expand communication channels to Europe, including uplinks with Google, buy expansion cards for routers in the Russian Federation and Europe, and also take care of the presence at traffic exchange points and the bandwidth of the channels to them. Rostelecom has clearly overdone something in this triad and is now trying to blame everything on either Google or the Russian special services."
Meanwhile, many bloggers and some media outlets were quick to claim that the technical problems with Google services reported by Rostelecom were the first sign of an imminent shutdown or slowdown of YouTube in Russia. The publication Gazeta.Ru evenwroteciting a source close to the presidential administration: "Russia plans to finally block YouTube in September."
But, bymessageTASS news agency, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov denied this. "No, there were no such plans," he said in response to a question about whether the Russian authorities were planning to restrict access to the service. "But we know from official statements by our respective companies that this is a problem with the equipment, which has not been updated for more than two years. There can be no other explanation here," added Dmitry Peskov.
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Dmitry Petrov does not consider senegal whatsapp resourceRostelecom's announcement fatal. He noted that if the operator cannot receive Google traffic from the nearest cache server, it will receive it from another one, which may be located, for example, in Europe. "This is bad for the operator's economy, but to say that this will lead to a global slowdown in traffic is an exaggeration. This will have the greatest impact on networks that do not have enough network capacity for routing. For example, if Google servers in Rostelecom fail, then the traffic will go through the company's foreign channels, and if they are not ready for this, then degradation will begin, but if there is enough bandwidth, then there will be no problems," the head of Comfortel concluded.
A top manager in the backbone division of one of the "big four" mobile operators cited another mass service with heavy content as an example: "Telegram serves all of Europe, Russia, and the former USSR from a single node in Amsterdam, and no one even thinks about any particular degradation in quality, except in cases of overloading their servers. Therefore, it is unclear why we can experience problems with the quality of access to Google services, whose CDN is hundreds of times more powerful. If something is jammed somewhere, traffic comes from the nearest nodes."
The head of the inter-operator business at one of the Russian backbone operators proposed a strategy that guarantees the quality of any mass Internet services: "We need to promptly expand communication channels to Europe, including uplinks with Google, buy expansion cards for routers in the Russian Federation and Europe, and also take care of the presence at traffic exchange points and the bandwidth of the channels to them. Rostelecom has clearly overdone something in this triad and is now trying to blame everything on either Google or the Russian special services."
Meanwhile, many bloggers and some media outlets were quick to claim that the technical problems with Google services reported by Rostelecom were the first sign of an imminent shutdown or slowdown of YouTube in Russia. The publication Gazeta.Ru evenwroteciting a source close to the presidential administration: "Russia plans to finally block YouTube in September."
But, bymessageTASS news agency, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov denied this. "No, there were no such plans," he said in response to a question about whether the Russian authorities were planning to restrict access to the service. "But we know from official statements by our respective companies that this is a problem with the equipment, which has not been updated for more than two years. There can be no other explanation here," added Dmitry Peskov.
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