Mobile operators talked about testing the “sovereign Runet” – review

Russian mobile operators have reported to the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications about the exercises to protect the Runet held in the Urals last year. During this, traffic filtering equipment was tested.

And, as it turned out, during the inspection revealed numerous problems. They arose among the operators “VimpelCom“, MTS, “Rostelecom“,”ER-Telecom Holding“And TTK. “Ekaterinburg-2000“And”Tele2»Worked out test scenarios without failures.

Among the problems there was a drop in speed and signal level. In some cases there were disconnections, and the transfer of commercial traffic was also interrupted. In addition, software issues were discussed. Although in some cases it was reported that there were no significant failures.

The most interesting thing is that in no case was it possible to block Telegram, which uses its own proxy servers and encryption systems. So far, further tests have been deemed inappropriate, the extension of the filtering system is also not yet reported.

Note that almost all test participants refused to comment on the results.

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