The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has
announced the winners of the tender for the supply of equipment to ensure the webcast of the March 4 presidential election. Despite Ilya Segalovich’s
proposal to broadcast from mobile phones, the authorities chose a much more expensive option. The supplier of laptops selected Lenovo, desktops - Fujitsu, monitors - Samsung, cameras - Logitech. Executor of the project with a budget of 13 billion rubles. will be "Rostelecom".
The total number of polling stations to be equipped with webcams is about 91,400. About 25 thousand will be equipped with stationary computers, and the remaining 66.4 thousand stations will be equipped with laptops. In some polling stations (4-5%) IP cameras will be installed, in the rest - ordinary webcams.
A set of equipment for each site:- PC or laptop;
- two cameras with brackets;
- two USB extensions;
- one safety cable for attaching a computer;
- network filter;
- uninterruptible power supply (for areas where stationary PCs are installed).
The cost of equipping one polling station with equipment will be
25,783 rubles. with a market value of 28,000 rubles. All manufacturers agreed to provide wholesale discounts.
“The equipment will be imported from China and Taiwan with seven Boeing 747 airplanes (22 thousand laptops fit on one side), desktop computers — 27 trucks from Europe. Monitors will be delivered from the Samsung factory in Kaluga. All the equipment will be brought to Moscow, where 600 plants are already ready at the two plants for setting up computers and installing software (the Russian Linux distribution). Then computers will be delivered to the regions and installed by 2 thousand brigades. The total weight of computer equipment will be 600 tons, the volume - 2300 cubic meters, ”
said Deputy Communications Minister Ilya Massuh. Just in case, the authorities purchase 5% more equipment than is necessary for the project. Deliveries to Russia begin on January 15, that is, today. The launch of the system in test mode - at the end of February.
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Purchased equipment after the election will be on the balance sheet of Rostelecom. This company is the executor of the project, it is also compensated for the costs of conducting communication channels to 70 thousand polling stations. The average cable length to one section will be 3 km. Satellite channels will be connected to 4000 sites in remote areas.
Records will be stored on servers in seven data centers of Rostelecom, the number of records is 5.4 pbytes. Rostelecom undertakes to ensure the possibility of simultaneous access to the site of 1.2 million people, just on election day, site attendance is projected at 25 million people.