Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev inaugurated a 380 kilometer (236 mile) fiber-optic cable linking Azerbaijan's Sumgait and Kazakhstan's Aktau beneath the Caspian Sea, AzerTAC reported on Oct. 15. The cable, with a designed capacity exceeding 400 terabits per second, forms part of the Digital Silk Way initiative connecting Central Asia with Europe.
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