Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan arrange to lay TASIM's Caspian segment
By Aynur Jafarova
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have made arrangements for constructing Caspian segment of Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway (TASIM).
The news was announced by Azerbaijani Communications and High
Technologies Minister, Ali Abbasov on September 3.
The minister said a contract will be signed in near future on the
construction of the underwater segment.
"The tender conditions are currently being discussed," the
minister said. "They will be announced as part of this
project."
The TASIM project envisions the creation of a major transit link
from Frankfurt to Hong Kong. The line will connect the major
centers of information exchange in Europe and Asia together,
stretching through China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey,
and Germany. A reserve North transit line will traverse the
territory of Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
A Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the TASIM consortium was signed during the 19th international BakuTel-2013 conference and exhibition in December.
In September 2013, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution supporting Azerbaijan's initiative on establishment of Eurasian Connectivity Alliance (EuraCA) and construction of TASIM.
TASIM will be implemented in two stages. The project is expected to come on stream at the cost of $100 million. The length of TASIM will be 11,000 kilometers and its initial network bandwidth will reach 2 Tbit/s.