Internet Service Provider

Radio-FSU

The RUHEP/Radio-MSU International Computer Network is one of the major providers of global Internet services in Russia and CIS countries. Users of the network are large state and public institutions, scientific and educational organizations, medical centers, mass media and some other non-commercial organizations.

The RUHEP/Radio-MSU network originated in 1993, when several radio relay lines were put into operation almost simultaneously connecting Moscow scientific centers with Moscow University, as well as a system of fiber-optic lines in Moscow and a satellite channel Moscow-Hamburg.

Total throughput of RUHEP/Radio-MSU international channels is about 5 Mbps. The main computer channel of the RUHEP/Radio-MSU network is the satellite channel Moscow-Hamburg. Since 1996 till 1998 the technology of combined satellite-land channel was debugged and used on this channel. Traffic was separated by protocol type and data packet length, which gave the combined channel the consumer qualities of a terrestrial channel. Nowadays the channel for scientific community for communication with the main world scientific centers of high-energy physics is the Moscow-Hamburg channel. Since 1997, the RUHEP/Radio-MSU network has had a general-purpose channel through the RBNet (Russian Backbone Network) backbone network for the needs of science and higher education.

The system of international channels of the RUHEP/Radio-MSU network is the biggest in the CIS. Besides Moscow-Hamburg channel, the network includes satellite trunk channels to St-Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk, Tbilisi and Yerevan, Minsk and Kharkov, Almaty and Kishinev. Negotiations are underway and work is underway to connect several more nodes in other CIS cities such as Tashkent, Bishkek and Baku to the network.

The RUHEP/Radio-MSU network has its own node in Hamburg which makes it possible to bring its international channels directly to Germany. It is reasonable at the moment because the largest flow of information comes from abroad to users in Russia and CIS countries.

The Moscow node of the network includes a distributed system of routers, fiber-optic and relay lines, channels built on dedicated telephone lines and switched connections. Radio relay lines connect the scientific centers of Troitsk, Obninsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk to the network. Troitsk, Obninsk, Protvino, Pushchino, Dolgoprudny, as well as a number of state institutions in Moscow.

Access to RUHEP/Radio-MSU network is provided via Moscow backbone fiber-optic network for different Moscow non-commercial organizations, communication with other networks is arranged via Moscow node M9-IX ("Internet eXchange"), located on Moscow Long Distance Telephone Station MMTS-9.

The RUHEP/Radio-MSU network uses satellite and radio relay, fiber-optic and leased lines, radio bridges, and telephone lines to connect users. Services are rendered for placing information on Web-servers in the network nodes.