Azerbaijan, Baku, May 18 /Trend H.Veliyev/
The terms of the EPEG (Europe Persia Express Gateway) fibre-optic cable line commission had been postponed from May to July, CEO of Delta Telecom Ramadan Veliyev told Trend on Friday.
Veliyev said the reason for postponing is due to unavailability of a sea cable line segment which should be laid between Iran and Oman.
"The work of laying the maritime segment has already begun and is expected to be completed within a month. Significant problems in the work are not expected. Meetings of the participants of the EPEG project are held regularly. The next meeting will be held soon in Oman. Delta Telecom will take part in its part of the work," Veliyev said.
The construction of the Azerbaijani segment of EPEG cable line has been completed and the network is being tested.
Delta Telecom has carried out the construction of the Azerbaijani segment of EPEG, in the frame of the network infrastructure, infrastructure of international connections and networks to provide connection for transit containers which were installed. As Delta Telecom said earlier the testing of the Azerbaijani segment will take approximately six weeks.
EPEG Iranian TIC, Omantel, Rostelecom and C & W (Cable & Wireless) are all participants in the project.
EPEG originates in Oman and will be routed to Frankfurt. It is supposed to pass through the territory of three countries (Azerbaijan, Poland and Ukraine).
The bandwidth will reach about 3.2 Tbps, and its length will extend to 6000 kilometres. The preliminary project cost is more than $200 million and laying the cable is expected to be launched in May 2012.
The cost of construction of the Azerbaijani section of the EPEG fibre-optic cable line is estimated at more than three million euros. The Alcatel-Lucent Company is the provider of telecommunications equipment for the construction of the Azerbaijani segment of the cable line.