BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 12. The project for installing a fibre route by the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) consortium and Infrastructure is expected to be completed at the end of Q1 2023, TAP AG told Trend.
“In early May 2022, EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America, and TAP, unveiled a memorandum of understanding for a joint venture (JV) to build a new fibre route connecting France with Turkey in a major expansion of EXA Infrastructure’s European network. The JV will utilise a fibre optic cable already installed by TAP alongside the 878-kilometre gas pipeline, creating the only direct connection between south-east and western Europe to provide high-levels of redundancy over existing multi-stage alternative routes.
All the legal procedures to set up the JV are expected to be completed sometime in Q1 2023.
The fibre optic cable has already been installed along the pipeline and we are now in the process of installing telecommunication equipment and connecting the cable into Milan, Sofia, Athens, Tirana and Istanbul. The project is expected to be completed at the end of Q1 2023,” said the consortium.
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