ROTAX ( Russian Transarctic Cable System ) is a project of a transcontinental telecommunication route that should pass along the bottom of the Arctic Ocean along the London - Tokyo route. The total length of the communication line is 16373 km. The transmission capacity of the highway is 60 Tbit / s, the guaranteed lifetime of the system is 25 years [1] .
History
The development of the communication line project, Polarnet Project began in 1999. In 2001, the company organized design and survey work, which went from west to east along the route of the future network to the ice border. In subsequent years, the project continued to be developed with the Indian telecommunications division of the Tata Group , which, contrary to the agreement, refused to co-finance it. The project was frozen for several years. However, in 2012, the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation supported the idea of building on the basis of a public-private partnership, guaranteeing the allocation of $ 150 million for the construction of a network worth $ 800 million. The system was planned to be commissioned in 2015 [2] . However, in the future, the start of the project was postponed several times. In the spring of 2016, the Polarnet Project management announced a decrease in construction estimates due to a possible failure of cable laying in the western section to Murmansk [3] .
As of August 2017, there is no information about the beginning of the construction of the highway [4] .
Network
The first stage of the construction of a system equipped with six pairs of fibers along the route Bude (United Kingdom) - Murmansk - Anadyr - Vladivostok - Tokyo is supposed to be divided into 3 segments [5] :
- western - two vessels lay a cable towards each other from Filey (Great Britain) and Teriberki (Russia);
- Arctic - three cable vessels from Teriberka to the beginning of the central Arctic section in the west, a converted vessel of the Arctic class from the beginning of the central Arctic section in the west to the point in the Chukchi Sea in the east and from Anadyr to the border of the central Arctic section in the Chukchi Sea;
- eastern - two cable vessels to meet from Amy CLS (Japan) and Anadyr.
At the second stage, it is planned to build cable outlets on the coast of the Russian Arctic in the adjacent northern territories (Arkhangelsk – Norilsk – Khatanga ).
The third stage is the passage of the highway through the southern and central regions (Samara – Omsk – Tayshet) [6] .
Comparative characteristic
According to Polarnet [7] , indicators of alternative communication networks for the London – Tokyo route are presented:
| Cable system | Length, km | Delay, milliseconds |
|---|---|---|
| ROTAX | 14700 | 76.58 |
| Trans india | 21000 | 255.4 |
| Pacific | 25,000 | 310-340 |
Notes
- ↑ Russia will build its own transarctic cable system . cnews (10.17.2011).
- ↑ The Ministry agreed on a cable laying project along the bottom of the Arctic Ocean . Izvestia (January 16, 2013).
- ↑ Polarnet Project is waiting for investors . ComNews (03/28/2016).
- ↑ E. Titarenko. Polarnet Project has secured support . ComNews (07/31/2017).
- ↑ ROTAX changes times and periods . ComNews (01/14/2015).
- ↑ High-speed Internet will appear in the north of Siberia by 2014 . Sib.fm (2.04.2012).
- ↑ Presentation of the ROTAX project, January 2012 . www.myshared.ru . Date of treatment April 27, 2019. Archived January 10, 2016.