AKIPRESS.COM - Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin and Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov attended the ceremony of launching the construction of the TransCaspian Fiber Optic in Aktau, the press service of the Kazakh PM said.

The fiber-optic communication line between the two countries will be laid along the bottom of the Caspian Sea.

The project is transcontinental and will create a digital telecommunications corridor between Europe and Asia. The cable with a length of about 380-400 km along the bottom of the Caspian Sea will be laid by Transtelecom JSC, KazTransCom and the Azerbaijani telecom operator AzerTelecom. The cable will be put into operation by the end of 2021, it will allow the transmission of data with a capacity of at least 4-6 terabits / s.

“Azerbaijan is a strategic partner of Kazakhstan. The principles of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation were laid down by the First President – Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev, the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev and subsequently the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, continuing the foreign policy of Elbasy, attaches particular importance to the development and deepening of bilateral relations with Azerbaijan,” Mamin said.

Mamin emphasized that the joint TransCaspian Fiber Optic project will allow to reach a higher level of development of a high-speed and secure data transmission infrastructure, enter the number of leading Europe-Asia trunk routes and take its rightful place in world data transit.