LEV (cable system)

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Route of the cable, Red is Submarine, Dark blue is terrestrial
Route of the cable, Red is Submarine, Dark blue is terrestrial

LEV is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Italy, Cyprus and Israel.

It has landing points in:

  1. Mazara del Vallo, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy
  2. Yeroskipos/Geroskipou near Paphos, Cyprus
  3. Tel Aviv, Israel

Terrestrial section(Shown in blue) to:

4.Catania, Sicily, Italy

It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 2,600 km. It started operation in March 1999.

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