BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct. 3
By Fidan Babayeva:
The project of laying the TransCaspian Fiber Optic (TCFO) - a fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) at the bottom of the Caspian Sea along the route between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan will be completed in 2021-2022, the chairman of the board of Kazakh Transtelecom JSC Elnar Adaybekov said, Trend reports citing the company.
He said that at the moment work is underway on the project "Construction, Ownership and Use of FOCL on the Bottom of the Caspian Sea".
"A 380-400 km cable laid on the seabed will allow to receive up to one terabit per second of traffic through Kazakhstan in one year of the project implementation. The technical implementation of the project is to be started in the spring of 2021," Adaybekov said.
The project, implemented within the “Azerbaijan Digital Hub” program of AzerTelecom, envisages the construction of fiber-optic cable lines between Azerbaijan and Central Asia countries through the Caspian Sea, and the creation of a digital silk road between Europe and Asia through Azerbaijan. The project consists of Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan routes. There is already an agreement between the operators and an interstate agreement between the two countries on the construction of a 400 km long Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic (TCFO) cable line between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
AzerTelecom is a telecommunication operator of Azerbaijan and the subsidiary of Bakcell, the first mobile operator and the fastest mobile internet provider in Azerbaijan. AzerTelecom connects Azerbaijan to the global Internet network through the diversified network. The company provides a range of advanced telecommunication services to local and foreign companies.