MedNautilus

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.

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.