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Infrastructure

Four layers, one asset.

Everything Region System operates resolves into four physical layers. Each has a different lifespan, and each is engineered to the longest one.

The stack

50 years

Corridor

Right-of-way, trench, chambers and crossings. The hardest thing to acquire and the last thing anyone should have to rebuild.

40 years

Duct

HDPE subduct with reserved ways. Capacity for cables that have not been invented yet.

25 years

Cable

Up to 288 fibres, blown in two-kilometre sections and certified span by span.

7 years

Transport

Optics and electronics — the only layer designed to be replaced, and the reason the other three must not be.

Reference specification

Standard fibre count288 F
Fibre gradeG.652.D / G.654.E
Burial depth1.2 m — 2.0 m
Chamber interval500 m
Splice tolerance≤ 0.05 dB
Span attenuation≤ 0.21 dB/km
Protection switching< 50 ms
Design capacity96 Tbps
Infrastructure

Resilience

Diversity is a geographic property, not a diagram. Two paths are only diverse if they share no trench, no bridge, no tunnel, no substation and no maintenance crew. We verify this in GIS before we call anything protected.

National 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.

Interactive map of the national networkA map of Kazakhstan showing core network nodes, metro nodes, cross-border gateways, data centres and the fibre spans connecting them. A text list of all nodes follows.ASTANAALMATYSHYMKENTKARAGANDAAKTOBEATYRAUAKTAUKOSTANAYPAVLODAROSKEMENKYZYLORDATARAZORALPETROPAVLKHORGOSDOSTYKSARYAGASHKORDAI
Core nodeMetro nodeBorder gatewayData centreBackbone spanProtection ring

Node register

  • Astana — Core, In service since 2009. Adjacent nodes: Kokshetau, Ekibastuz, Temirtau, Arkalyk, Karaganda.
  • Almaty — Core, In service since 2008. Adjacent nodes: Konayev, Taldykorgan, Khorgos, Taraz, Kordai.
  • Shymkent — Core, In service since 2011. Adjacent nodes: Taraz, Saryagash, Turkistan.
  • Karaganda — Core, In service since 2010. Adjacent nodes: Temirtau, Balkhash, Astana.
  • Aktobe — Core, In service since 2012. Adjacent nodes: Oral, Kostanay, Kyzylorda, Atyrau.
  • Atyrau — Core, In service since 2013. Adjacent nodes: Beyneu, Oral, Aktobe.
  • Aktau — Gateway, In service since 2016. Adjacent nodes: Beyneu, Zhanaozen.
  • Kostanay — Core, In service since 2013. Adjacent nodes: Aktobe, Kokshetau, Arkalyk.
  • Pavlodar — Core, In service since 2011. Adjacent nodes: Ekibastuz, Semey, Petropavl.
  • Oskemen — Core, In service since 2014. Adjacent nodes: Semey, Dostyk.
  • Kyzylorda — Core, In service since 2014. Adjacent nodes: Zhezkazgan, Turkistan, Aktobe, Beyneu.
  • Taraz — Core, In service since 2012. Adjacent nodes: Almaty, Kordai, Shymkent.
  • Semey — Metro, In service since 2015. Adjacent nodes: Pavlodar, Oskemen.
  • Oral — Gateway, In service since 2015. Adjacent nodes: Aktobe, Atyrau.
  • Petropavl — Gateway, In service since 2014. Adjacent nodes: Kokshetau, Pavlodar.
  • Turkistan — Metro, In service since 2019. Adjacent nodes: Shymkent, Kyzylorda.
  • Kokshetau — Metro, In service since 2016. Adjacent nodes: Kostanay, Petropavl, Astana.
  • Taldykorgan — Metro, In service since 2017. Adjacent nodes: Dostyk, Almaty, Khorgos.
  • Zhezkazgan — Metro, In service since 2018. Adjacent nodes: Arkalyk, Balkhash, Kyzylorda.
  • Balkhash — Metro, In service since 2017. Adjacent nodes: Karaganda, Konayev, Zhezkazgan.
  • Ekibastuz — Metro, In service since 2016. Adjacent nodes: Astana, Pavlodar.
  • Temirtau — Metro, In service since 2015. Adjacent nodes: Astana, Karaganda.
  • Konayev — Metro, In service since 2021. Adjacent nodes: Balkhash, Almaty.
  • Beyneu — Metro, In service since 2018. Adjacent nodes: Kyzylorda, Aktau, Atyrau.
  • Zhanaozen — Metro, In service since 2019. Adjacent nodes: Aktau.
  • Arkalyk — Metro, In service since 2020. Adjacent nodes: Astana, Zhezkazgan, Kostanay.
  • Khorgos — Gateway, In service since 2013. Adjacent nodes: Taldykorgan, Almaty.
  • Dostyk — Gateway, In service since 2012. Adjacent nodes: Oskemen, Taldykorgan.
  • Saryagash — Gateway, In service since 2015. Adjacent nodes: Shymkent.
  • Kordai — Gateway, In service since 2016. Adjacent nodes: Almaty, Taraz.
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