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Kirill Stroganov noted that the dynamics of the pricing policy in relation to operators has not changed. Prices for services for participants in traffic exchange points have remained fixed, with the exception of some cases.

"Also interesting is the trend of market consolidation. If earlier any business center owner thought about creating a "pocket" business operator, now such ideas seem unprofitable due to large investment investments and a high threshold for entering the market," said Kirill Stroganov.

The trend towards consolidation germany whatsapp number database is also confirmed by Alexey Tarasov. He also sees a tendency towards increasing the number of points of presence and interaction with structures like Synterra and RTRS.

to last year and an increase in marginal profit from sales of data transit services on backbone networks. This is a key circumstance, since previously for a long time the marginality of this service did not grow and even had a downward trend. For the industry, this is an important marker and a significant event," said Sergey Yakovlev, Deputy General Director of JSC TransTeleCom Company for Telecom Business.

He added that active work on increasing international data transit has resumed. At the same time, the geography is changing somewhat: in addition to traditional transit in the East-West corridor, new channels in the North-South corridor are playing an increasingly important role.

How did the departure of foreign providers affect
IXP representatives interviewed by ComNews said that the situation with the departure of global Internet providers did not affect them much. GlobalNet saw an insignificant decrease in interaction volume, and the company did not record any critical shutdowns in 2023; for MSK-IX, the shutdown of foreign companies did not affect the overall traffic volumes, which continue to grow; Sea-IX, as a regional traffic exchange point, does not have any global participants.

Kirill Stroganov believes that the outflow of foreign providers (Cogent, Lumen, etc.) is mainly due to the departure of consumers. "This affected the entire operator market that worked with international representative offices and led to a redistribution of traffic," he explained.

Is it difficult to purchase equipment?
Egor Drobyshev said that the last time he experienced difficulties with purchases was in 2022 - with Kazakhstan. Now there are no difficulties.

Evgeny Morozov noted that it is difficult to purchase the equipment necessary to maintain and develop services. He said that equipment prices have become higher and delivery times have increased. However, there were no serious problems with the equipment, as it was possible to establish deliveries. Also, the MSK-IX network was initially built taking into account that it should have a significant reserve of power and redundancy.

"With an average port load of 50-60% at a peak traffic value of 5.7 Tbit/s, MSK-IX can continue to connect new and expand existing clients on existing equipment. For network development and expansion projects, it is planned to purchase equipment from the same proven vendors that were previously used on the network," said Evgeny Morozov.

Alexey Tarasov confirms that there are difficulties with purchasing equipment: "But they are all solvable. Sanctions are tightened, but players react quickly and within a couple of weeks after the changes, they change their logistics and financial chains."