Rostelecom will provide video surveillance of the Unified State Exam 2014

Rostelecom and Rosobrnadzor signed a state contract for the provision of video surveillance services during the Unified State Examination (USE) in 2014. The contract amount is 600 million rubles.

According to the contract, Rostelecom is to equip at least 3,081 facilities with PAKs, including examination points and regional information processing centers. Thus, more than 36,000 classrooms will be equipped with a video surveillance system, while at least 16,000 classrooms will be available online. Information will be recorded in data centers from all points of the exam.

To implement the project, Rostelecom will use its own network infrastructure throughout the country. Video servers will be deployed in 7 interregional data centers (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Kochenevo (Novosibirsk region), Knyaz-Volkonskoye (Khabarovsk Territory) and 2 regional data centers (Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) of the company.

It is planned that the performance of the USE video broadcasting system will provide up to 1,200,000 simultaneous views by users and up to 60,000 simultaneous views from the camera.

To implement the project, Rostelecom will use its own network infrastructure throughout the country, and 2,000 mobile teams will be organized. More than 5,000 employees of the company will take part in the work on the project.

As part of the project, Rostelecom launched the SMOTRIEGE.RU portal, specially designed for real-time viewing of Internet broadcasts during the Unified State Examination in 2014. By decision of the customer, this portal is available to federal and public observers accredited by Rosobrnadzor, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Rosobrnadzor. The portal provides the ability to simultaneously view at least 24,000 video broadcasts from all cameras for 4,000 authorized users.