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TASIM Role In The New Geopolitical Reality

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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

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TASIM WWW

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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

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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

Projected Route

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Competitors

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(DE – PL) – UA – RU – KZ – CN

• (DE – AT – HU – RO – BG) –• (TK – GE) – AZ – KZ – CN

Competitors

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Volumes vs Money

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Chinese Part

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New Urumqi POP has deployed in May 2012 China Telecom has optimized its netwоrk topology and decreased latency with 50-70 ms from Urumqi to Hong Kong 100% redundancy provided by China Telecom

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Caucasus Part - Route

Submarine cable route via Kinderli (Republic of Kazakhstan) to Siazan (Azerbaijan Republic)

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European Part

100% redundancy all over European part of Project

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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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Thank You

Thank You For Your Attention !

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RTDs

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RTDs