Aktau, Kazakhstan

Aktau, Kazakhstan is a submarine cable landing point in Kazakhstan (coordinates 43.6500°, 51.2000°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Kazakhstan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Aktau is a major port city in southwestern Kazakhstan, on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Aktau is on the Mangyshlak Peninsula in the Mangystau Region. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Aktau, Kazakhstan, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Azerbaijan. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Aktau, Kazakhstan in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic Cable Project (2026) — Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic Cable Project is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Landing at Aktau, Sumgait, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.