Sovam Teleport, a joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc, US owned SFMT and the Moscow-based Institute of Automated Systems, reports that its Moscow and St Petersburg-based customers now have access to Frame Relay. New nodes in four other Russian cities, Tyumen, Ufa, Vladivostok and Krasnodar, are being built now and should be finished by the end of January. The company also promises to connect Perm, Irkutsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Almaty and Kiev by next June. Marketing manager Paul Honey said the company is introducing Frame Relay and TCP/IP service, depending on the type of routers, as a backbone technology for its new local area network interconnect service, called Sovam Route. The service is aimed at banks and other organisations now needing to link local area networks in their head offices and remote branches. Sovam hopes to have 100 Frame Relay customers in 1995 and to increase its total customer base from the current 2,000 to about 3,000 by the end of 1995.
