Kazakhstan will pave the Internet through the Caspian, according to the Ministry of Digital Development of the country.
According to the department, as part of the agreement between the governments of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, it is planned to build fiber-optic communication lines at the bottom of the Caspian Sea. Currently, work is underway to determine the operator from the Kazakhstan side, which owns the main lines of communication.
The ministry noted that a joint venture with shares of 50/50 will be created to implement the project. The participating operators will invest their own funds in the construction of lines. Preliminary cost – $ 40 million. The length of the cable along the bottom of the sea will be about 380-400 km. The design capacity of data transmission will be at least 4-6 Tbit/s. The terms of implementation have not yet been specified.
“The project provides for the transit of Chinese traffic on the territory of Kazakhstan and on the underwater cable to Azerbaijan with further access to Europe (through Georgia – the Black Sea – Bulgaria – Slovakia to Germany). It helps to strengthen the transit potential of the republic, as due to due to increase in transit capacities, and due to their diversification, will create an alternative route of traffic transit, ”the department said.