Baltic companies joined alliance of major European network-operators:
4cE alliance Offers Broadband Telecom Connections to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

As of November 2003, 4cE – For connecting Europe offers interconnections with the three Baltic countries. After extending the 4cE network to southeastern Europe last year, 4cE headed for the northeastern border of the continent in 2003: Baltic Optical Network (BON), an association of network operators in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, joined the 4cE alliance. Seven of the ten EU-accession countries are now connected through the 4cE network.

4cE is an alliance of network operators in North, Central, and Eastern Europe, founded four years ago. 4cE provides carriers, ISPs, ASPs, and multi-national corporate customers with broadband transmission capacity from 2 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps. The 4cE backbone network inter-connects the economic centers of Denmark, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Baltic Countries, and the Czech Republic, allowing cross-border data, voice, and video transmission.

The 4cE network is based on state-of-the-art SDH-technology (STM-16). Parts of the network have been upgraded with DWDM-technology. In all member countries, the 4cE services are of similar high quality. Contracts are closed and business is done with only one 4cE-contact company per customer, taking care of all local-area, national, and cross-border 4cE connections. The network is monitored around the clock by 4cE technicians to guarantee high-level transmission security.

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4cE participates in CWM 2002 Central & Eastern Europe

Considering the fast-moving telecommunications market, 4cE stands at the yearly CWM Central and Eastern Europe-fairs have already become a tradition.

More than ever before, the wholesale customer and his needs in a turbulent market is the focus of this years CWM held from 3 to 5 December in Berlin. As a comparatively long-term market player in Poland, Czechia, Denmark, Austria, and Germany, the 4cE alliance will present its well tried products – bandwidth, wavelength, and co-location – once again to trade-fair visitors at stand no. 5/6 in Hall 1 at Messegelände Berlin.

4cE presented extended network reach at UCI Global 2002

For the first time after two new partners from Austria have joined 4cE – For connecting Europe last April, the alliance presented its south-eastward expanded network reach at UCI Global 2002 from 28 – 31 May in London. Approximately 1,000 people from all over the world, most of them telecommunications experts, attended the three-day event.

4cE offers bandwidth and co-location in Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Denmark, Germany, and neighboring countries. Beginning December, the alliance will present its product portfolio at UCI Europe 2002 in Berlin. In the meantime, prospective customers can contact Juergen Schunk – +49 (0) 30 51 50 27 49, veagcom@4cE.org – and the 4cE partners in each member country for information. Or contact the 4cE partner nearest to you.

For all addresses, please see Contact/Networkers

4cE extends network reach to South-East Europe

4cE has extended its cross-border network limits south-eastwards: In April 2002, the Austrian network operators Well.COM Datahighway Burgenland AG and EVN AG (Energie-Versorgung Niederösterreich) joined the 4cE alliance! Both companies are known for their long experience in data transfer and related services.

Well.COM provides Burgenland, the south-eastern Austrian state at the frontier with Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia, with a wide range of high-quality fiber-optic network services such as managed bandwidth, VPNs, and corporate network solutions as well as co-location and internet services. The Well.COM network is connected to POPs in Vienna via own optic fiber and links Slovakia and Hungary via high-capacity cables. Interconnections to other Central and East European countries are implemented.

The EVN telecommunications network stretches from the Slovak border to the frontier with the state of Styria and from the Czech border to the state of Burgenland. In addition to inner-Austrian connections to several provinces and some of the most important locations in Vienna, EVN runs an SDH link and high-capacity cables to the Czech Republic. High-capacity connections to Slovakia shall be established. EVN offers managed bandwidth and co-location services, VPNs and corporate network solutions.

For more information, please see
4cE Networkers and 4cE Network

4cE exhibits at UCI Global 2002 in London

As many telecommunications companies continue having a tough time, 4cE – For connecting Europe presents itself as a constant business partners can count on: During UCI Global 2002 from 28 to 30 May at the Olympia 2 in London, the 4cE crew will inform visitors and exhibitors at PoP C3 about new developments within the alliance and present 4cE’s first-class bandwidth and co-location services in North, East, and Central Europe. The wide-spread, close mashed fiber-optic network, state-of-the-art technology, first-class 24 h/d-customer service and cost effective solutions are pros 4cE customers can rely on.

4cE goes global:
Alliance focuses on global CWM

After performing successfully at the CWM Central & Eastern Europe exhibition in Vienna last November, the 4cE alliance now focuses its attention on the global capacity wholesale market. 4cE will present its main products – bandwidth, wavelength, and co-location – to trade-fair visitors during CWM Global 2001-Exhibition in London early in May 2001.

“CWM Central & Eastern Europe has been a great success for the 4cE alliance”, said Gunnar Wilhelm, managing director of Berlin-based VEAGCOM company, the German 4cE ally. For VEAGCOM and the other 4cE-partners, TEL-ENERGO (Poland), CEZTel (Czech Republic), Banestyrelsen, SEAS, and Copenhagen Energi (Denmark), the Vienna trade fair was an outstanding opportunity to present their USPs to potential customers and business partners from all over the world. Particularly the already existing 4cE network and co-location facilities in Central and Eastern Europe, 4cE’s one-stop-shopping concept and state-of-the-art SDH- and DWDM-technology had called CWM-visitors’ attention to the successful alliance of six European carriers, said Dr. Juergen Reddmann, VEAGCOM managing director like Wilhelm.

During CWM Central & Eastern Europe, international telecommunications companies and carriers carrier at close to 50 stands got into contact with several hundreds of telecommunications experts visiting the Vienna Trade Center.

Telecommunication-industry’s representatives meet in Vienna:
4cE participates in CWM 2000 Central & Eastern Europe

From 8 to 11 November 2000, the international telecommunications community meets for CWM 2000 Central & Eastern Europe at the Austria Center in Vienna. Capacity wholesalers and telecommunications operators from all over the world get together for three days to exchange the latest tech and biz news with other experts and to present their new products designed to meet the needs of the Central and Eastern European telecommunications market.

At stand number I2, 4cE representatives introduce CWM-visitors to the extensive 4cE product portfolio including immediate access to end-to-end circuits and co-location facilities in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and neighbouring countries.

Cross-border network facilities:
Sea-cable between Denmark and Germany upgraded with
SDH-technology

In October 2000, a fiber-optic sea cable connection between Nykøping/Denmark and Rostock/Germany was put into operation. Starting with a capacity of 2.5 Gbps (STM-16), the optical fiber link connects Scandinavia with Central and Eastern Europe providing extensive network capacities to carriers, ISPs, and ASPs.

In 1996, the Danish-German sea cable was built as part of the “KONTEK”-project launched by SEAS and VEAGCOM in order to establish a 400,000 volt direct-current connection between Scandinavia and the European continent.

Extended transmission capacities between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic

In October 2000, a second gateway between Poland and Germany was upgraded with SDH-technology. Additionally to the already SDH-equipped cable connection between Mikulowa and Hagenwerder, the formerly PDH-equipped bridge between Krajnik and Vierraden now has been upgraded with SDH-technology allowing a transmission capacity of up to STM-16.

The gateway between Hradec/Czech Republic and Röhrsdorf/Germany had already been upgraded with SDH-technology in spring 2000.