History of the company

The Ukrainian-American-Swiss Limited Liability Partnership “Kancom” was founded on 12 July 1993. At the time of its creation the participants of LLP “KANCOM” were:

• State Property Fund of Ukraine acting in the interests of the Kyiv Metropolitan (55 percent of the Charter Fund);
• Andrew Corporation (USA) (45 percent of the Charter Fund).

The beginning of construction and development of Ukraine as an independent state and introduction of reforms aimed at stimulating the market economy in the young state encouraged our founders to create the Company.

As a result, KANCOM:

• was first among the communications carriers to build its own fiber optic network and begin providing appropriate services;
• was first to introduce the technology for creating a telecommunications network using tunnels and constructions of the Metropolitan that are securely protected from external tampering;
• was the first company in Ukraine to create an extensive multiple-service fiber optic communications network based on the modern SDH technology.

1995

• Fiber optic network “KANCOM” was put into operation.

1997

• Beginning of the construction of the “last mile” – fiber optic access network.

1998

• State-of-the-art digital telephone exchange was put into operation for providing services with the use of ISDN PRI ports.

1999

• Earth satellite communication station was connected to “KANCOM” Network;
• KANCOM is an “officially registered organization acting in the field of telecommunications” (ОROT) in the INTELSAT system

2000

• KANCOM was registered as LIR (local internet registry) in the Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Center (RIPE NCC); (LIR status ensures the right to obtain a required unique block of allocated IP-addresses)
• KANCOM becomes a participant of the Ukrainian Internet-Traffic Exchange Network (UA-IX) via an access channel to the service access point of 100 Mbit/s and its possible expansion to 1 Gbit/s.

2001

• KANCOM organizes services for transmission of studio-quality audio and TV signals on the basis of its own fiber optic network.

2002

• Fiber optic SDH backbone and the “last mile” (its access network) solidly covering all the districts of the city of Kyiv;
• Construction and commissioning of the Gigabit Ethernet Network;
• Putting into operation of the Network of coin payphones ROTOR 2000.

2003

• Installation and commissioning of a great number of payphones and cash machines at the stations and entrance halls of the Kyiv Metropolitan.

2004

• given the continuous expansion of the access network, an electronic system of accounting and analytical analysis of the access network was created;
• capacity of the external Internet channel was increased to 7 Mbit/s;
• complex insurance system was introduced covering the property, financial risks of the company and insurance of its responsibility as an employer;
• medical insurance program for all employees of the company was implemented.

2005

• capacity of the external Internet channel was increased to 12 Mbit/s;
• speed of the access channel to the Point of the Ukrainian Internet-Traffic Exchange Network (UA-IX) was raised to 1 Gigabit/s;
• upgrading of the SDH-Network by installation and putting into operation of 4 AM-S multiplexers of STM-1 level produced by “Lucent Technologies” and 2 AMU multiplexers of STM-1/4 level;
• creation of the third ring of the backbone SDH-Network;
• putting into operation of 13 new payphones.

2006

• capacity of the external Internet channel was increased to 20 Mbit/s;
• upgrading of the SDH-Network by installation and putting into operation of 6 AM-S multiplexers of STM-1/4 level produced by “Lucent Technologies”

2007

• transmission capacity of the external Internet channel was increased up to 30 Mbp/s;
• access speed of the Center of Ukrainian Internet-traffic exchange (UA-IX) was increased up to 10 Gigabp/s;
• SDH-Network modernization was carried out: AM-S and STM-16 multiplexers produced by Lucent Technologies were put into operation;
• Gigabit Ethernet-network was expanded from 1 Gigabp/s to 10 Gigabp/s.

2008

• transmission capacity of the external Internet – channel was increased up to 50 Mbps;
• works on transition of SDH-Network from STM-1 (155 Mbp/s) to STM-16 (2.4 Gigabp/s) were carried out during the network operation without interrupting the traffic of connected customers;
• central switch of Ethernet-network was changed for CISCO CATALYST 6509, expanding the network capacity up to 10 Gigabp/s;
• during 2008 Last Mile modification continued. New equipment produced by CTC Corporation was implemented. This enabled the company to substitute the morally obsolete equipment for the upgraded one and release optic fiber in the network using CWDM technology.