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Azerbaijan to be able to use TAE resources for another 10 years

ICT Materials 11 August 2014 17:36 (UTC +04:00)
The commissioning term of the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable backbone will be extended by about another 10 years, a source in the telecommunications market of Azerbaijan told Trend.

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug.11
By Huseyn Valiyev - Trend:

The commissioning term of the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable backbone will be extended by about another 10 years, a source in the telecommunications market of Azerbaijan told Trend.

This is due to the high quality of the optical fiber used in the laying of the TAE, according to the source.

"Life of fiber-optic communication lines, depending on their quality reaches averagely 25 years. The fiber used in the construction of TAE will be in demand even in the next five - ten years," the source said.

During the construction of TAE backbone, optic lines of FO-12, FO-16, FO-20 and FO-24 standards have been used which given the internal consumption growth of Internet traffic in the long term, cannot overwhelm the transportation of large amounts of data. The issue of replacing existing optical infrastructure with the FO-48 cables standard is being actualized in this regard.

A TAE backbone is one of the elements of the technological and telecommunication fibre infrastructure for provision of broadband services to rural regions. It will be used as a backup line to ensure the sustainability of the AzNET segment.

The implementation of the project was agreed with a tripartite protocol signed on Oct. 21, 1999 between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. In December of the same year, construction began on the Azerbaijani segment of TAE. Construction of the internal segment was completed in late 2012. The commissioning fibre backbone allowed the establishment of a direct link between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Ukraine.

Edited by CN

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