Tata Communications extends its reach to Russia

Tata Communications today announced the expansion of its network into Russia via a local Moscow point of presence, strengthening its presence in rapidly growing emerging CIS countries.

Tata Communications owns and operates one of the world's largest private sub-sea cable networks, enabling and end-to-end for telecom serrvices providers. It delivers services to over 1,600 wholesale customers, 10,000 enterprise customers and more than 600 mobile operators, including over 100 service providers in Russia and CIS that are serviced from Tata Communications' Moscow office.

''Our expansion into Russia highlights our commitment to extend our global footprint into the emerging markets and deliver an unparalleled global network reach for our industry-leading voice and data services,'' says Claude Sassoulas, managing director, Europe and Africa, Tata Communications.

Multiple services from its Moscow location will integrate seamlessly into the company's next generation network and IP / MPLS and Ethernet infrastructure for onward national and regional connectivity.

The company's MPLS network reaches 67 countries together with its VNO network that reaches 194 countries.

In addition, Tata Communications serves most of the leading mobile operators in the region with advanced roaming signaling and value-added service solutions.