After years of tensions and confrontations, Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed a historic agreement to allow internet transit between their telephone networks. This pact aims to improve regional connectivity and offer more stable routes for data traffic. For citizens, it represents a concrete step towards peace and a potential improvement in basic digital services.
The technical infrastructure behind the connectivity pact 🔌
The agreement allows operators from both countries to exchange IP traffic directly, eliminating the need to route data through third parties such as Russia or Iran. This reduces latency and connection costs. Telephone companies will implement exchange points (IXPs) at the border, making networks more resilient to outages. Technical cooperation is a tangible advance in a hostile context.
Now they can insult each other with lower latency 😂
Who would have thought it: after so much crossfire, what unites them is a fiber optic cable. Citizens of both countries will be able to share memes, watch cat videos, and, of course, troll each other with unprecedented upload speeds. Peace may take time, but low ping is already a reality. At last, technology achieved what diplomacy could not for years.