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Runet buys power: 154 servers to see all the traffic of Russians.
The locking system in Runet is being prepared for expansion. The company DCOA, associated with Rostelecom and responsible for the introduction of equipment of the sovereign Internet from telecom operators, buys servers for 1.31 billion rubles. New capacities will be needed against the backdrop of rising traffic, the fight against VPNs and plans of the authorities to strengthen the filtering infrastructure.
According to CNews, Data Center for Processing and Automation has announced the purchase of Russian servers. The initial price of the contract is 1.31 billion rubles, follows from the materials of procedure No. 32616060072 on РосэлторгеRoseltorg. The winner of the auction is planned to be determined by June 15, 2026.
DCOA purchases at least 154 servers. The equipment must be transferred to the customer at a time to the warehouse until August 14, 2026. The exact address of delivery in the documentation is not disclosed, the company itself is registered in Moscow. The press service of Rostelecom explained the purchase of the company’s technological tasks and refused to comment additionally.
DCA acts as a key integrator of sovereign Internet systems and supplies technical means of countering threats. TSPU works on technologies for in-depth traffic analysis, installed on networks of telecom operators and used to block resources, slow access to individual services and process network flows.
The technical task for the purchase describes powerful servers based on two Intel Xeon Gold 6530 processors of the Emerald Rapids generation or analogue. Each processor must have at least 32 cores and 64 threads at a frequency of 2.1 GHz. Also required is the LGA4677 socket, at least 1 TB of DDR5 RAM, PCIe 5.0 controller and at least 80 PCIe lines.
The storage system should include two NVMe SSDs for the operating system and two 7.68 TB SSDs for data. Network card - Intel X710 with four ports of 10 Gbit / s. The form factor is limited to rack servers 1U or 2U, power and cooling must have redundancy.
The equipment must have a valid entry in the register of Russian industrial products of the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the time of filing an application, conclusion of the contract and delivery. Assembling servers are required to be placed in Russia. The supplier is also waiting for certificates of compliance with technical regulations and a certificate in the field of communication, which indicates the use of equipment in telecommunications infrastructure.
The source of CNews on the market believes that purchases with short terms and a detailed description of the characteristics are often agreed in advance between the customer and the supplier. An additional limiter can be a certificate in the field of communication: different manufacturers can get the document, but the certification is difficult and not for every vendor is needed.
Large Russian manufacturers, including Aquarius, Yadro, Graviton and Fplus, can be assembled such servers. At the same time, fully domestic processors can not yet compete with the fifth generation of Intel Xeon in terms of performance, PCIe 5.0 support and DDR5 memory, the CNews interlocutor explained.
DCOA was created in 2019 to implement the law on the sovereign Runet. The company is the only integrator when implementing TSPU on the networks of operators at the request of Roskomnadzor. The last time DCOA disclosed financial indicators for 2022: revenue then reached 12.4 billion rubles, net profit amounted to 1.7 billion rubles.
Now DSOA is under the control of the special company "Rostelecom" JSC "Gradient". The same structure owns and manages JSC RDP.RU, one of the key developers of the Runet blocking systems. Earlier, Gradient received almost 12 billion rubles, including 10 billion rubles. recapitalization and 2 billion rubles. debt.
The need for new capacities is associated with an increase in the volume of data and the complication of methods for circumventing restrictions. Earlier, Kommersant sources said that when overloading, the TSPU can turn on the mode when traffic goes directly without filtration. In March 2026, part of the blocked resources in Russia temporarily became available, and to solve the problem, market participants called the increase in capacity.
After the March failures, Roskomnadzor strengthened control over telecom operators. From the end of 2025 to the spring of 2026, dozens of providers received large fines for missing part of traffic bypassing TSPU in order to maintain the quality of communication. The regulator itself denied problems with power.
A separate area of expansion is related to VPN. In May 2026, it became known about the government’s decision to allocate about 40 billion rubles. subsidies to the Main Radio Frequency Center, subordinated to Roskomnadzor. The money should go, among other things, to combat the means of bypassing the blocking.
The demand for VPN in Russia continues to grow. The number of downloads of the five largest VPN services in Google Play increased 14 times year-on-year and in March 2026 reached 9.2 million. From March 2025 to March 2026, users downloaded such applications 35.7 million times.
The Ministry of Figures also got the task of reducing the use of VPN. In March, the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadayev, according to sources of RBC and Forbes, at a meeting with telecom operators and digital platforms asked market participants to take measures against services for circumventing restrictions.
The plans of the authorities provide for a large-scale strengthening of the TSPU. By 2030, the power of devices for blocking and slowing sites should grow by 2.5 times. Almost 84 billion rubles are planned to be sent to the federal project, and the capacity of the automated Internet security system should reach 954 Tbps. By the end of 2026, all traffic of the Russian segment of the Internet is going to be allowed through the system.
Roskomnadzor also plans to introduce filtering of Internet traffic using machine learning. For the development and launch of the mechanism, the department intends to allocate 2.27 billion rubles. The new system should work on the basis of already installed TSPU and help to identify prohibited content, VPN services and other ways to circumvent restrictions.
The growth of blockages already creates side effects for the IT market. Russian developers have encountered problems when accessing international repositories, version management systems, cloud development environments and open source libraries. Market participants associate failures with increased fight against VPN and other tools for circumventing restrictions.
The locking system in Runet is being prepared for expansion. The company DCOA, associated with Rostelecom and responsible for the introduction of equipment of the sovereign Internet from telecom operators, buys servers for 1.31 billion rubles. New capacities will be needed against the backdrop of rising traffic, the fight against VPNs and plans of the authorities to strengthen the filtering infrastructure.
According to CNews, Data Center for Processing and Automation has announced the purchase of Russian servers. The initial price of the contract is 1.31 billion rubles, follows from the materials of procedure No. 32616060072 on РосэлторгеRoseltorg. The winner of the auction is planned to be determined by June 15, 2026.
DCOA purchases at least 154 servers. The equipment must be transferred to the customer at a time to the warehouse until August 14, 2026. The exact address of delivery in the documentation is not disclosed, the company itself is registered in Moscow. The press service of Rostelecom explained the purchase of the company’s technological tasks and refused to comment additionally.
DCA acts as a key integrator of sovereign Internet systems and supplies technical means of countering threats. TSPU works on technologies for in-depth traffic analysis, installed on networks of telecom operators and used to block resources, slow access to individual services and process network flows.
The technical task for the purchase describes powerful servers based on two Intel Xeon Gold 6530 processors of the Emerald Rapids generation or analogue. Each processor must have at least 32 cores and 64 threads at a frequency of 2.1 GHz. Also required is the LGA4677 socket, at least 1 TB of DDR5 RAM, PCIe 5.0 controller and at least 80 PCIe lines.
The storage system should include two NVMe SSDs for the operating system and two 7.68 TB SSDs for data. Network card - Intel X710 with four ports of 10 Gbit / s. The form factor is limited to rack servers 1U or 2U, power and cooling must have redundancy.
The equipment must have a valid entry in the register of Russian industrial products of the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the time of filing an application, conclusion of the contract and delivery. Assembling servers are required to be placed in Russia. The supplier is also waiting for certificates of compliance with technical regulations and a certificate in the field of communication, which indicates the use of equipment in telecommunications infrastructure.
The source of CNews on the market believes that purchases with short terms and a detailed description of the characteristics are often agreed in advance between the customer and the supplier. An additional limiter can be a certificate in the field of communication: different manufacturers can get the document, but the certification is difficult and not for every vendor is needed.
Large Russian manufacturers, including Aquarius, Yadro, Graviton and Fplus, can be assembled such servers. At the same time, fully domestic processors can not yet compete with the fifth generation of Intel Xeon in terms of performance, PCIe 5.0 support and DDR5 memory, the CNews interlocutor explained.
DCOA was created in 2019 to implement the law on the sovereign Runet. The company is the only integrator when implementing TSPU on the networks of operators at the request of Roskomnadzor. The last time DCOA disclosed financial indicators for 2022: revenue then reached 12.4 billion rubles, net profit amounted to 1.7 billion rubles.
Now DSOA is under the control of the special company "Rostelecom" JSC "Gradient". The same structure owns and manages JSC RDP.RU, one of the key developers of the Runet blocking systems. Earlier, Gradient received almost 12 billion rubles, including 10 billion rubles. recapitalization and 2 billion rubles. debt.
The need for new capacities is associated with an increase in the volume of data and the complication of methods for circumventing restrictions. Earlier, Kommersant sources said that when overloading, the TSPU can turn on the mode when traffic goes directly without filtration. In March 2026, part of the blocked resources in Russia temporarily became available, and to solve the problem, market participants called the increase in capacity.
After the March failures, Roskomnadzor strengthened control over telecom operators. From the end of 2025 to the spring of 2026, dozens of providers received large fines for missing part of traffic bypassing TSPU in order to maintain the quality of communication. The regulator itself denied problems with power.
A separate area of expansion is related to VPN. In May 2026, it became known about the government’s decision to allocate about 40 billion rubles. subsidies to the Main Radio Frequency Center, subordinated to Roskomnadzor. The money should go, among other things, to combat the means of bypassing the blocking.
The demand for VPN in Russia continues to grow. The number of downloads of the five largest VPN services in Google Play increased 14 times year-on-year and in March 2026 reached 9.2 million. From March 2025 to March 2026, users downloaded such applications 35.7 million times.
The Ministry of Figures also got the task of reducing the use of VPN. In March, the head of the Ministry Maksut Shadayev, according to sources of RBC and Forbes, at a meeting with telecom operators and digital platforms asked market participants to take measures against services for circumventing restrictions.
The plans of the authorities provide for a large-scale strengthening of the TSPU. By 2030, the power of devices for blocking and slowing sites should grow by 2.5 times. Almost 84 billion rubles are planned to be sent to the federal project, and the capacity of the automated Internet security system should reach 954 Tbps. By the end of 2026, all traffic of the Russian segment of the Internet is going to be allowed through the system.
Roskomnadzor also plans to introduce filtering of Internet traffic using machine learning. For the development and launch of the mechanism, the department intends to allocate 2.27 billion rubles. The new system should work on the basis of already installed TSPU and help to identify prohibited content, VPN services and other ways to circumvent restrictions.
The growth of blockages already creates side effects for the IT market. Russian developers have encountered problems when accessing international repositories, version management systems, cloud development environments and open source libraries. Market participants associate failures with increased fight against VPN and other tools for circumventing restrictions.
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