Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan launch Trans-Caspian fiber cable

Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have announced and inaugurated the Trans-Caspian Fiber-Optic Cable Line under the “Digital Silk Way” initiative, while also exchanging agreements related to the Middle Corridor and vessel acquisition.

• The leaders officially inaugurated the cable line in an online format and were briefed on the project; it runs about 380 kilometers along the Caspian Sea seabed between Sumgayit and Aktau and has capacity of more than 400 terabits per second.
• The article says the line will support digital connectivity between Asia and Europe, enable data transmission from China and Central Asia to Europe via Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia, and help attract investment for AI data centers, cloud services and computing capacity; separate signed cooperation documents on the Middle Corridor were also exchanged.