Russia ranks third in the world in terms of the stability of the national segment of the Internet for possible failures – a network of Great Britain and the United States proved to be more reliable. One of the main advantages of Runet is its extensive infrastructure: there are more than a thousand operators, dozens of which are connected to a foreign network. But the proposal is now under discussion by the state to transfer control of cross-border traffic could lead to negative consequences for the domestic segment of the Internet.
RuNet occupies the third place in terms of sustainability among the national segments of the Internet around the world, it follows from the research company Qrator Labs, specializing in countering DDoS-attacks. The company has made card network operators prefixes and distribute them on the national segment of the Internet. “Then, for each operator was made calculation of the degree of influence of failure of its work on a particular segment of the national”, – explained in Qrator Labs. Operator, which are most dependent on the work you’ll ever need, was the “Rostelecom”, its failure would lead to a global unavailability of less than 5.5% of the Russian segment of the Internet network. The leader in the sustainability of the local network segment was the UK – in the event of communication problems at Virgin Media only 3.4% of the local networks have lost touch with the world. In second place US – problems at TATA operator would lead to the unavailability of 5% of local networks.
“The higher the maturity of the market and its degree of diversification, in particular, the more operators of medium size has access to the cross-border transfer, the more stable work of the whole of the national segment”, – says CEO Qrator Alexander Ljamin Labs. He noted that the total failure of the operator – infrequent, but such cases happen.
“In Russia three years ago, one of the five largest operators completely gone in downtime of 17 minutes due to DDoS-attacks on the equipment, lucky that it was at night,” – says Mr. Ljamin.
Active broadband operators in Russia more than a thousand, estimates CEO “TMT Consulting” Konstantin Ankilov. “When it comes to their own physical channels, the cross-border crossings have one, mainly the major players of the federal scale. At the same time in the last few years, the operators lease channels from existing players to the largest telehauzov Europe. It can not afford to have the operators average size “, – he says. “Rostelecom” – is not the monopoly, the length of trunk lines “Big Three” operators and “Transtelekom” collectively almost equal network “Rostelecom”, confirms advisor “PIR” Oleg Demidov. General Director of the Technical Center of Internet Alexei Platonov asserts that access to cross-border transfers are from 20 to 30 Russian operators, “so our market can be considered secure.”
This is a large number of cross-border crossings are concerned state. As reported by “Kommersant” in April 2014, the working group of the President’s administration discussed a package of measures to strengthen control over Runet, among which was a ban on the accession of regional and local data networks to overseas. A pass in all cross-border traffic was proposed to carry out only through a network of nationwide operators. Now the Ministry of Communications is discussing amendments to the law “On communication” aimed at ensuring the integrity and stability of the RuNet, which include a paragraph on the need to oblige the owners of all the autonomous systems that communicate traffic with foreign networks “set technical means of verification of cross-border traffic” (see. “B “May 30). By themselves, new technical features mentioned in the bill, do not harm the stability of Runet and do not cause damage, says Oleg Demidov. “Moreover, they need technical implementation can give the state an effective tool struggle with a number of network attacks including DDoS and MITM”, – adds Mr. Demidov. However, earlier discussed the ban on joining the regional networks to foreign “can lead to the degradation of the connectivity and resilience at topology level.”
Which countries are at risk fail operators
In many countries in the event of failure the only major country in the operator’s local network segment will be removed almost completely. So, in case of problems in “Uzbektelecom” the operator will not be available 97.32% of the networks of Uzbekistan national segment, calculated in Qrator Labs. In Syria, in case of failure of the Syrian Telecom operator will not be available 94.7% of the national segment of the local network. In Turkmenistan, the problems have “Turkmentelecom” would have caused the unavailability of 90.4% of local networks, the possible failure of the “Beltelecom” in Belarus – 86.4%, hypothetical problems in Delta Telecom in Azerbaijan – 72%.
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