One of the main trends of the past year for IXP (Internet

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here are about 40 IXPs in Russia, with 30 actually operating. There are seven players on the market that are significant on a national scale. Such data was provided by Alexey Tarasov, CEO of Effort Telecom LLC. He believes that there was no significant market growth in 2023, but there were changes in routing and changes in the shares of participants outside the top three.

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Exchange Point) market players germany whatsapp number database is a change in legislation. In July, the State Duma passed a lawNo. 1214072-7"On Amendments to the Federal Law "On Communications". According to it, owners and other holders of traffic exchange points are required to install technical means of countering threats (TMC). However, the requirements for TMC appeared only for the second reading: initially, the bill was developed to "regulate the transition to a registry model for assigning radio frequencies or radio frequency channels for civilian radio-electronic equipment."

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The State Duma of the Russian Federation has adopted in the second reading a bill amending the federal law "On Communications". According to it, owners of traffic exchange points will have to install technical means of counteracting threats (TMC). Previously, the requirement only applied to communication operators.

Due to the adoption of the law, market players' costs have increased - they had to invest in technical equipment, and the maintenance of the network infrastructure has become more expensive. "How this event will manifest itself for participants will be seen in 2024, but in any case, there will be an increase in costs for the placement of TSPU equipment (operating costs), as well as for the development of the network associated with ensuring interaction with TSPU, that is, an increase in the composition of equipment (capital costs)," said Yegor Drobyshev, CEO of Sea-IX.

Kirill Stroganov, head of commercial development at OBIT LLC, also said that many IXP owners have faced deterioration in financial performance due to legislative innovations and the outflow of foreign operators. "For operators, these changes have not particularly affected their presence at points or the stability of the network as a whole," added Kirill Stroganov.

In addition to Law No. 1214072-7, Evgeny Morozov, CEO of MSK-IX, noted laws that affected personal data, online advertising, the activities of hosting providers, and amendments regulating the activities of traffic exchange points that came into force this year.

Alexey Zakrevsky, CEO of GlobalNet LLC (which owns the DATAIX traffic exchange network), noted the trend of regional expansion this year. "Partners are actively developing networks across the country and helping us connect clients interested in peering from the Volga region, the Urals, and Siberia," said Alexey Zakrevsky.

He added that last year there was an increase in imported traffic: “We see this on our own network as well: DATAIX participants actively consume foreign traffic, for example from Telegram, which accounts for about 2 Tbit/s of total network load daily.”

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In 2023, 90% of international traffic to Russia comes from Europe. After a sharp drop in 2022, growth began in 2023. The main drivers were Telegram and hosting platforms.

The 2022 trend continues to develop - changes in the profile and composition of participants at traffic exchange points. Evgeny Morozov said that, despite the disconnection of some foreign players from IXP, traffic continues to grow due to the arrival of new Russian content providers. "This is explained by the fact that domestic content is replacing foreign content. In addition, Russian users spend more and more free time and are more active on the Internet," said Evgeny Morozov. "If a person uses certain social networks, then in the event of their blocking or leaving Russia, he does not stop consuming such content, but simply switches to similar platforms."

Egor Drobyshev considers the lack of growth in Google traffic at the exchange point to be an important trend - more and more Google traffic is moving to IP transit.