National digital infrastructure

The backbone beneath everything.

Thirty-four thousand kilometres of glass, buried beneath a country. Every payment, every diagnosis, every dispatch travels it. Region System designs it, builds it, and keeps it alive.

Enter the networkWhat we build

34 800
km: 17
regions: 30
nodes: 99.995
%

Invisible infrastructure — Visible reliability — Engineering tomorrow —

01Philosophy

You will never see it. You depend on it every second.

A surgeon opens a scan recorded four hundred kilometres away. A clearing house settles the day’s payments. A dispatcher moves a freight train through the night. Between the intention and the outcome lies a strand of glass thinner than a human hair, two metres beneath a road you have driven a thousand times.

We put it there. We measure the ground, cut the trench, pull the duct, splice the fibre to five hundredths of a decibel — and then we watch it, every span, every hour, for the next twenty-five years.

Infrastructure is not a product. It is a promise with a very long expiry date.

Region System

02Capability

Eight disciplines. One continuous system.

We do not sell connectivity. We are the engineering organisation that designs, constructs and operates the physical layer a country runs on.

National Backbone

Long-haul transport across seventeen regions.

34 800km

Metro & FTTx

Density where the country actually lives.

17regions

Dark Fibre

Your photons. Our glass.

1.24M fibre-km

Carrier Services

Capacity between here and everywhere.

96Tbps

Data Centres

Sovereign compute, carrier-neutral.

7facilities

Underground Infrastructure

The part nobody photographs.

2 100km/year

Network Operations

Someone is always watching.

99.995%

Smart Infrastructure

Sensing the network — and the city around it.

11cities

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03National network

One country. One continuous system.

Every core node, cross-border gateway and data centre on the backbone. Select a node to inspect its role in the topology.

Core nodeMetro nodeBorder gatewayData centreBackbone spanProtection ring

04Method

How infrastructure actually gets built.

Nine phases. Each is a gate — nothing proceeds until the previous phase is signed.

StandardGNSS RTK · ±20 mm

01 / 09 · Survey

01GNSS RTK · ±20 mm
Survey
Before anything is designed, the ground is measured. RTK GNSS traverse, buried-utility detection, geotechnical sampling and a route walked on foot — because the map is never the territory.
02ITU-T L.100
Design
Route selection trades distance against risk: flood plains, seismic zones, planned road widening, land tenure. The shortest path is almost never the right one.
03Right-of-way
Permitting
Right-of-way across ministries, railways, municipalities and private landholders. The slowest phase — and the one that decides whether the project exists at all.
04HDD · 1.2 m
Earthworks
Open-cut where it is safe, horizontal directional drilling where it is not. Rivers, highways and railways are crossed without breaking the surface.
05HDPE 40/33
Duct
HDPE subduct laid at 1.2 metres with warning tape, marker posts and chambered access every 500 metres. The duct will outlive three generations of cable.
06288 F · G.652.D
Cable
Up to 288 fibres blown — never pulled — in two-kilometre sections. Blowing keeps tension off the glass, and tension today is attenuation in ten years.
07≤ 0.05 dB
Splicing
Fusion splicing in a climate-controlled trailer, every joint measured bidirectionally. The tolerance is five hundredths of a decibel. Nothing is rounded up.
08OTDR · 1550 nm
Certification
OTDR traces at 1310 and 1550 nm, end-to-end loss budget, chromatic and polarisation-mode dispersion. The span is handed over with its own birth certificate.
0924 / 7 / 365
Operations
Commissioned into the NOC with its baseline optical signature recorded. From this hour the span is watched continuously, for the rest of its working life.

Eighteen years

Watch a network become a nervous system.

The backbone did not arrive. It accumulated — one river crossing, one regional centre, one border at a time.

2008

Route kilometres: 620km
Design capacity: 0.040Tbps

2008 — 2012

Foundation

The first trunks between the two largest cities. Everything since has been an extension of a decision made in a trench outside Karaganda.

1 · Nodes in service

20082026

05Network operations

The country, in real time.

A representation of the Region System operations view: aggregate transport, span health, inter-regional latency and the incident queue.

Live view

Demonstration data

Aggregate transportNominal

64.4Tbps

Backbone availabilityNominal

99.995%

Optical marginWatch

5.14dB

Inter-regional latency

Inter-regional latency
Astana→Almaty	1 245 km	13.63ms RTT
Astana→Atyrau	1 904 km	20.09ms RTT
Almaty→Shymkent	773 km	9.03ms RTT
Astana→Oskemen	1 025 km	11.57ms RTT
Aktobe→Kyzylorda	1 111 km	12.44ms RTT
Almaty→Khorgos	389 km	5.27ms RTT

Incident queue

Planned fibre works — Aktobe – Kostanay, protection path active
Optical margin trending down — Semey – Oskemen, field crew dispatched
Utility feed switched to generator — Atyrau facility, N+1 maintained

Facility load

Astana69.1%

Almaty52.6%

Karaganda65.8%

Atyrau71.6%

Figures on this page are a demonstration model for the reference build. Live operational telemetry is not published.

06Scale

Measured, not claimed.

0km

Route kilometres in service

0fibre-km

Fibre kilometres deployed

0nodes

Network nodes

0regions

Regions with continuous presence

0.000%

Backbone availability, trailing 12 months

0Tbps

Design capacity

07Who we build for

Eleven sectors. One physical layer.

The requirements differ. The glass does not.

Government

National registries, e-government platforms and inter-ministerial transport, delivered inside national jurisdiction.

Adjacent services

National Backbone
Data Centres
Network Operations

08Selected work

Evidence.

Corridors, rings, crossings and facilities delivered into service.

2024International

Trans-Caspian Corridor

A western trunk from the Caspian shore to the Ural valley, giving the country a third international direction that does not transit a northern neighbour.

1 180km

2023International