MedNautilus is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking countries in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is a successor of the LEV system linking Cyprus, Israel, and Italy.

MedNautilus
Landing points
Total length5,729 km
Design capacity3.84Tb/s
Technology6 fiber pairs
Date of first use2001

It has landing points in:

  1. Catania, Sicily, Italy
  2. Chania, Crete, Greece
  3. Koropi (Athens), Greece
  4. Istanbul, Turkey
  5. Tel Aviv, Israel
  6. Haifa, Israel
  7. Pentaskhinos, Cyprus

The system comprises 5,729 km of cable. Its total design transmission capacity is 3.84Tb/s on 6 fiber pairs. All the landing points, except those in Turkey and Cyprus, are served by a cable ring which ensures uninterrupted service in case any single segment in the ring fails or has its cable severed.

Telecom Italia, which owns the MedNautilus and LEV systems held a virtual monopoly on international cable-based communications to and from Israel. This was changed in 2012 however, with Bezeq International completing a 12.8 Tbit/s submarine fiber optic cable to Italy and Tamares Telecom laying a 42 Tbit/s submarine fiber optic cable to Cyprus and France.

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