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Learn about the TASIM telecommunications project connecting Asia to Europe via strategic partnerships, goals, routes, and challenges in the changing geopolitical landscape.
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Perfect B2B Telecommunications TASIM Role In The New Geopolitical Reality April 2014
Timeline • Proposed 2008 by Gov. of Azerbaijan • Endorsed by UN General Assembly Resolution Dec. 2009 • Project Group launched Apr. 2010 • International Workshop on TASIM, Project Secretariat established Jul 2011 • 21st of December, 2012, UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a new resolution (A/Res/67/194), which contributed to the update of political support of the UN for project TASIM • 3rd of December, 2013, Preliminary Agreement has signed by China Telecom, IR&AC, KazTransCom, Rostelecom, Turk Telekom
Main Goals • Deployment of one of the shortest transit “Asia – Europe” route • Increasing of revenue provision and additional value adding services for European, Caucasian, Middle East, Central Asia countries, and furthermore Turkey and China • Substantial alternative transit opportunities for European, Middle East and Turkish carriers to bypass Russia • Redundant “Asia – Europe” transit route deployment via Kazakhstan territory
Project Parts • Project has splitted into 4 parts due to terrestrial partnership method: • 1. Chinese part. With ChinaTelecom partnership. The route – Hong Kong – Urumqi – China-Kazakhstan border • 2. Kazakhstani part. The route – Kazakhstan-China border – Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan Caspian marine border • 3. Caucasus part. With IRAC of MTIT AR partnership. The route - Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan Caspian marine border – Istanbul • 4. European part. With Turk Telekom Int. partnership. The route - Istanbul – Frankfurt
Competitors (DE – PL) – UA – RU – KZ – CN • (DE – AT – HU – RO – BG) – • (TK – GE) – AZ – KZ – CN
Chinese Part • New Urumqi POP has deployed in May 2012 • ChinaTelecom has optimized its netwоrk topology and decreased latency with 50-70 ms from Urumqi to Hong Kong • 100% redundancy provided by China Telecom
Caucasus Part - Route • Submarine cable route • via Kinderli (Republic of Kazakhstan) toSiazan (Azerbaijan Republic)
European Part • 100% redundancy all over European part of Project
Risks • Till now the Status of Caspian Sea is not legitimized • Traffic volumes are still unknown • Route is still not optimized for competitive RTD
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