Neterra

Type	Privately held company
Industry	Telecommunication
Founded	1996 (1996)
Headquarters	Sofia, Bulgaria
Area served	International
Key people	Neven Dilkov[1] Managing Director
Services	IP Transit Colocation Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Satellite Services
Revenue	€ 12 280 208 (2010)[2]
Operating income	€ 2 959 357 (2010)
Net income	€ 1 124 330 (2010)
Total assets	€ 4 599 582 (2010)
Total equity	€ 2 368 304 (2010)
Number of employees	131 (2010)
Website	http://www.neterra.net

Neterra is a Bulgarian operator for complex telecommunications services and projects in Southeast Europe. The company is established as the first alternative operator of land and satellite stations in Bulgaria. Neterra's data network covers all major cities in Bulgaria and reaches points in Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, England, France, Netherlands and Germany.

History

1996

• Neterra is founded by Neven Dilkov, now Chairman of the Society for Electronic Communications.^[3][4]

1997

• Neterra becomes land operator of the following satellite companies - Loral Skynet, Telespazio, KB Impuls Hellas, Triaton.

2000

• The company starts the construction of Sofia Teleport^[5] and finally completes it in 2001. Sofia Teleport is a carrier neutral data centre. It is connected with all existing telecom networks in Bulgaria and international operators BT, GTS, Telecom Austria,^[6] Verizon Business etc. are colocated at the facility.^[7]

2003

• Neterra is the first Bulgarian telecommunication operator to create international interconnection and a "point of presence" in Frankfurt, Germany. At that time the company controls approximately 1/3 of the whole Internet traffic in Bulgaria.^[8]

2004

• Neterra completes its national network for transfer of voice and data. The network of Neterra reaches border checkpoints with Romania, Turkey and Greece.
• Neterra starts the development of an IT project called Neterra TV, an internet television that allows Bulgarians around the world to watch Bulgarian television and movies.^[9] At present moment more than 300 000 registered users in various geographic points watch on Neterra.TV.^[10]

2006

• Neterra is selected as partner of British Telecom in Bulgaria. The communication center of Neterra became PoP No.100 in the global IP network of BT. For 20 years BT has succeeded in extending its MPLS network in the countries from Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS (Community of Independent States).^[11]
• The copyright project Neterra.tv for Internet television and television in LAN is completed.
• Neterra commissions the first stage of its largest project for construction of an optical network through Bulgaria, which connects the European and Asian support points - Balkan Fiber Optic Ring (BFOR).

2007

• In the beginning of 2007 Neterra completes a project for crossing the Danube river with fiber optic cable. The project connects the Bulgarian city of Russe with the Romanian town of Guergevo and includes fiber optics between Neterra's Telecom Center Russe and Romanian servise providers through the water border of the two countries. Several fibre optics have been placed for greater reliability. The technology of laying and protection of the fiber optics is unique and has been engineered specially for the project.
• Neterra is selected as the point of presence of Verizon for Central and Eastern Europe.
• British Telecom comes to Sofia and decides to collocate Point-of-Presence at Neterra.

2008

• In March Neterra finishes constructing own fiber optic network with ring topology in Bulgaria. Now Neterra's Points-of-Presence are more than 30.^[12][13]

The project, that started in December 2004, was the first "green" investment in the field of telecommunications in Bulgaria, specially designed to serve the international transit market between Europe and Asia. The purpose of the project is to build a new telecommunication infrastructure on the Balkan Peninsula, that is managed from a single place and offers reliable services to international operators, using transit traffic through the Balkans. In its Bulgarian section the cable system crosses directly between the cities of Russe and Svilengrad, using the shortest possible route. It connects three borders of Bulgaria - Romania to the north and Turkey and Greece to the south. Neterra offers one-stop-shopping of telecommunication services between Europe and Asia, that include SDH services (n x 64 kbit/s up to STM-16) and Carrier Class Ethernet (up to n x 10 Gbit/s).^[14]

2009

• Sofia Teleport is a satellite ground station in the region, which broadcast on the Astra 2C satellite, at 31.5°E.^[15]
• BIX.BG - The first Bulgarian Internet exchange point chooses Neterra's "Sofia Data Center" for placing its equipment.^[16]
• Neterra starts the IPTV service QUARTO in cooperation with the largest Bulgarian mobile operator – Mtel.^[17]

Neterra's Complete Modular IPTV Infrastructure System is basically an interconnected system where video content is acquired, prepared, encoded, stored and streamed to the partner both live and on-demand. It is complete with statistical (people metrics) module, billing and payment modules.

2010

• Neterra has an access point in Paris in the Equinix Telehouse Paris 2 data center, as well as in Amsterdam in the InterXion data center.

Services

• IP Transit
• Colocation^[18]
• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
• International and Intercity Leased Lines
• Building and Maintenance of Clients Network
• VSAT Installation
• Radio Relay Lines
• Broadcast via Satellite
• Video and Radio Streaming
• SNG from Sofia Teleport

References

External links

• Official Neterra Website
• Neterra TV
• QUARTO