T8 took part in Working Group on the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway

T8 with a delegation of the Russian Federation at the invitation of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation took part in the first meeting of the working group of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) project on high-speed information highway Asia – Pacific.

General Director of “T8” Vladimir Treschikov,  took part in the discussion of the draft project information highway and made a presentation to the working group. In particular, he reported that, modern Russian telecommunication equipment for optical communication lines can be significantly reduced infrastructure costs of the project. The development of high-speed superhighway will increase the availability of the Internet in remote areas of the Asian and Pacific countries.

Were discussed issues of the future highway infrastructure designed network topology, including the technical conditions for access on territory of the countries participants of the project. The group of the Russian Federation in a meeting also attended by representatives of Russian Ministry and operators. The meeting was held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, on 1 and 2 September.