MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. Tea Next, a fiber optic communication line linking western and eastern borders of Russia, was launched in six years after the project implementation start, the press service of Russian telecom company Rostelecom said.

Rostelecom calls this project a "super-speed digital mainline" and the largest infrastructural projects in the field of communications in Russia over the past years. Tea Next also has breakouts on the borders with Mongolia and China. Capital investments into the communication line totaled 17.6 bln rubles ($206.1 mln).

According to the press service, the data transmission speed over the cable varies from 384 Tbps to more than 1 Pbps. Such difference is due to differences in DWDM technologies used for the line. The estimate service life of cables in Tea Next is 25 years at the least.

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