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TAE undersea segment will be laid as part of East-West Information Superhighway

29 October 2009 16:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva - APA-ECONOMICS. The Siyazan (Azerbaijan)-Aktau (Kazakhstan) segment of the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable line across the Caspian Sea will be laid as part of the East-West Information Superhighway, said Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov

According to him, the project is currently being discussed at the UN General Assembly.

"If the project gets the UN political support, many countries in the region, including Caspian countries will receive the recommendations of the UN, making it possible to implement the project."

The TAE project envisions a 16,800-mile telecommunications line through 20 countries, from Frankfurt am Main in Germany to Shanghai in China. The TAE fiber optic line is designed to transmit voice, data, fax and video information.
Azerbaijanâ€™s and Kazakhstan have signed a protocol for construction of the Caspian segment.
By calculations in 1999, the cost of the project to lay the cable on the sea bottom between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan was about $10 million but the cost may change after recalculations.
The route includes cable lines Baku (Azerbaijan)-Astara (Iran) 345km, Baku-Russia 250km and Siyazan (Azerbaijan)-Aktau (Kazakhstan) 400km.