Tele2 Estonia launches Baltic Highway fibre route from Finland via Baltic states and Poland to Frankfurt ⋆

Tele2 Estonia launches Baltic Highway fibre route from Finland via Baltic states and Poland to Frankfurt

Tele2 Estonia has announced the launch of the Baltic Highway fibre connection from Finland via the Baltic States and Poland to Frankfurt and across Europe.

Tele2 will provide Finnish companies with a new route to improve the security and capacity of connections as data volumes increase, bolstered by the overhead cable, which is difficult to break. Tele2 Estonia Baltic Highway

Fiber optic network Tele2 Estonia Baltic Highway

Tele2 Estonia use a Full Mesh optical network. Company has more than 6750 km of optical fibers in Europe and more than 2750 km in Estonia.

In addition:

The Baltic Highway network speeds up to 14.6 Tbps
Tele2 Estonia DWDM network connects Helsinki and Frankfurt via shortest overland route.
Tele2 Estonia DWDM network connects Helsinki and Frankfurt via shortest overland route
High availability and reliability due to less regenerations
Highly secured infrastructure – most of our optics are mounted on OPGW (Optical Ground Wire) cables, which are safely located at the top of high-voltage power lines or in gas pipelines.

Tele2 Estonia 2021 Networking Overview

In 2021, Tele2 committed itself to creating a better distribution and faster Internet, as a result of which the distribution or Internet speed improved in 165 places in Estonia. The new base stations will provide better coverage for residents of 43 regions and faster internet in 122 regions.

According to Margus Sitsi, Tele2’s radio network planning and network construction manager, the focus of the network work was on those places in Estonia where it was necessary to make the Internet faster, both in cities and in the countryside. Priority will be given to areas with a larger number of Tele2 customers, ie the most friends.

“In order to ensure better coverage, we built a base station in a completely new location, around which we tried to have better mobile coverage, and 4G internet speeds also increased in the area. We also expanded the 4G base station in our existing location, which made the internet faster in the area. Attention was also paid to all kinds of interior solutions, where we launched a base station in various public places and commercial buildings, ”explains Sits.

Improving the quality of distribution and Internet connection is a constant focus for Tele2, and the network work map above also provides a look back at 2021.