Brief description of COMSTAR-Direct
COMSTAR-Direct CJSC, AS8359, founded 1993, is the largest and leading Russian ISP with over 750,000 ADSL subscribers in Moscow. We are also the first Russian IPTV provider, with the number of active customers around 150,000 (and growing). Our 40Gb Ethernet-based backbone network includes nodes located in Russia, Europe and United States. We are part of a larger group of companies belonging to AFK Sistema corporation. You may check Comstar-UTS (LSE:CMST) web-site to find out more information about us.
Service portfolio of COMSTAR-Direct includes:
- Internet services (both residential and corporate customers)
- IP transit
- IPTV (broadcast IPTV, Video on Demand and more)
- Hosting services (web and mail)
- VoIP services (corporate and pre-paid)
Peering policy of COMSTAR-Direct
The information below applies to COMSTAR-Direct IP backbone network
(AS8359) which currently spans
- Moscow, Russia
- Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- London, UK
- Paris, France
- NYC, US
- Los Angeles, US
With regard to possible peering relationship we are interested in both public and private peering. We consider the following locations for that:
- DE-CIX (Ancotel, Frankfurt)
- AMS-IX (Telecity)
- LINX (Telecity, Bonnington House)
- Netnod (Stockholm)
- Panap, Telehouse 2, Paris
- NYIIX, PAIX (S&D, 111 8th, New York)
- Any2, One Wilshire, 624 South Grand Avenue, LA
- Equinix (Ashburn) [public only]
Although this is not a formal peering agreement, the document provides basic guidelines to a party willing to peer
Overview of the peering requirements
- No formal peering agreement is required, though we're willing to sign an appropriate contract if applicable
- Peer must operate it's own backbone in Europe and/or United States
- Aggregated exchanged traffic must be 50 Mbps or more (preferrably)
- Peering must be set up in all locations where both COMSTAR-Direct and potential peer have their presence
- IPv4 and IPv6 possible at all locations
- COMSTAR-Direct reserves the right to terminate peering upon a mutually negotiated terms
You may find our looking glass here
To request peering, please send a notification to peering@comstar-direct.ru
Last modified: 2009-07-09