Central Asia between Digital Silk Road and Digital Silk Way
... means laying a 340-kilometer, 400 terabit-per-second fiber-optic cable along the bottom of the Caspian and increasing the transmission capacity of the Black Sea cable line to at least 16 terabit/s. This Azerbaijani initiative strategically connects Central Asia with Europe and opens further routes to the global internet system. The projects of the European Union serve to boost the digital economy of Central Asia and diversify the connection of the region to global internet systems. According to World Bank studies,...