OJSC North-West Telecom and NGENIX*, the operator of the first network in Russia for content delivery and distribution, have entered into an Agreement of Direct Interaction of Networks at the St. Petersburg web traffic exchange point (SPB-IX).

This Agreement will make it possible for OJSC N.W. Telecom to improve the quality of Company's subscribers' broadband access to external content resources using NGENIX CDN services through reducing network delays and increasing the efficiency of web applications.

According to Oleg Popov, Deputy General Manager and Sales Manager of OJSC N.W.Telecom,   'Thanks to the interaction with NGENIX, our subscribers of broadband access to the Internet throughout the Northwestern Federal District will have a higher delivery speed of audio, video, program, game and other content, including the so-called "heavy" content, e.g. HD-video.'

A higher speed Internet content delivery is achieved through placing the resources of content providers on NGENIX CDN's geographical ly distributed service platforms in immediate proximity to broadband access operator s' networks, among other places, in St. Petersburg.

'We are pursuing an open peering** policy. Such a type of interaction between CDN and Internet operator s is mutually beneficial and is widely used in the world,' Konstantin Chumachenko, General Manager of NGENIX, stressed.

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* NGENIX ( https://ngenix.net) provides the services of distributed delivery and distribution of network content and optimization of the efficiency of web applications. The services are provided on the basis of the CDN (Content Delivery Network) technology and are intended for content providers, mass media and the corporate sector. NGENIX CDN's distributed service platforms are installed in 7 Federal districts of the RF, which makes it possible to distribute content simultaneously at a high speed with a wide coverage of the Internet audience.   Projects using the NGENIX services include developers of free software https://www.i-rs.ru, the entertainment project https://youdo.ru, the portal on the PHP scripting language https://ru.php.net, the web site of the NTV program Kvartirny Vopros (Housing Issue) https://peredelka.tv, the video advertising network https://videonow.ru, etc.

** Peering is an agreement Internet operators on traffic exchange between their networks, as well as technical interaction implementing such an agreement.