The new data connection network, named ‘Baltic Highway’, has been launched to connect Eastern and Western Europe and offers high speed data transmission. The 3,000 km optical fibre will run from Tallinn (Estonia), via Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Warsaw (Poland) to Frankfurt in Germany.
The investment project has been carried out by three partners: a Lithuania-based IT and telecommunication company Data Logistics Center, a Latvian state-owned electric utility provider Latvenergo and an Estonia-based Tele2. The total cost of the investment stands at €1.5m and the construction of the project spanned over five year.
The network is said to be the shortest span data highway between the places and will offer low 35 milliseconds latency, capacity of 100G per channel and 9.6. Tbit/s total throughput. Additionally, it will add an opportunity to reach Saint Petersburg in Russia via 1000G and Belarus via 10G connections.
“This network is highly relevant to big data operators as well as finance institutions and banks, which consider fast data exchange important. It is also important to the mega date centres of Microsoft, Google and Yandex, established in Finland – up to this day they used to employ the 10G data transfer networks. Baltic Highway is like a freeway to Frankfurt, only without crossings and border control,” says Juozas Rumbutis, the Head of the Sales Department of Data Logistics Centre.