Mastertel (Connection Service Provider in Moscow and St. Petersburg) are taking part in a project organising the broadcasting in Russia of the World Cup Football Tournament 2010.
The Company is providing a high speed digital connection channel, through which a high resolution television signal will be broadcasted. This will be achieved from the node of the European Broadcasting Union in Moscow to the VGTRK "Rossiya" television channel node in Moscow.
Resources of the Master-Connect Network were utilized, which is Mastertel's infrastructure base and meets all of the most modern technical requirements. This enabled the carrying out of work on the connection channel in such a short time and at the highest technological level.
TTK, the EBU's exclusive World Cup 2010 broadcaster uses the EBU's European connection node to broadcast to Moscow. TTK is one of the leading trunk connection service providers in Russia.
The digital channel Frankfurt au Main/Helsinki/Moscow, organised by TTK, will become the main on-land news delivery route from South Africa.
"We are very happy to take part in such a significant and interesting project and to participate as a partner of TTK. We are sure that what we have planned will become reality and that Russian fans will be able to fully enjoy supporting their favourite teams", said Vitaly Ezopov, the Executive Director of Mastertel.
TTK Company
The ZAO TransTeleCom Company (trade name TTK) was established in 1997. Its main shareholder is OAO "RZD". TTK services and operates one of Russia's largest fibre-optic connection networks which is more them 53,000 km long and has a carrying capacity of up to 200 Gbit/sec. The network is laid along the Russian railways and has more then 1,000 access nodes across all the regions of Russia. It also connects Europe with Asia. Seventeen regional branches across Russia provide TTK services over the whole territory of Russia.
TTK is one of the five leading alternative providers of fixed connections and provides 37% of leasing of national channels and has 35% of the trunk Internet market segment and 35% of the IP VPN market. Total profits of the TTK group of companies in 2008 totalled 27.5 billion rubles and a clear profit of 1.9 billion rubles.
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