Impartial and unbiased Mediterranean submarine infrastructure operator, Medusa Submarine Cable System, and information service supplier in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, Libyan United Worldwide for Telecommunication and Know-how (LUIC), introduced this week that they’ve signed an settlement to increase Medusa to the Libyan coast. The 8,760 km lengthy submarine cable can have two touchdown factors in Libya, connecting the coastal cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, in accordance with the assertion.
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Geographic Growth
The Libyan branches of the Medusa cable strengthen the connection between North African international locations and, consequently, their reference to Southern Europe. With this new settlement, Medusa will join 11 international locations via its touchdown factors in Portugal, Morocco, Spain, France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, and now Libya.
Necessary cable within the Mediterranean
“Medusa was born with the aim of being a very powerful cable within the Mediterranean, and to realize that, it will need to have a stable construction on each shores,” stated the Managing Director at Medusa and AFR-IX telecom.
“That’s the reason it has at all times been important to attach all of the international locations of North Africa. We’re satisfied that Medusa will mark a constructive turning level for Libya’s connectivity, and this can have an effect on the area’s economic system.”
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LUIC’s Imaginative and prescient
Libyan United Worldwide Firm for Telecommunication and Know-how (LUIC) acknowledged, “The corporate is engaged on creating and connecting Libya to the world by enhancing connectivity and attaining geographic variety of the worldwide submarine cables infrastructure degree. This might be performed by establishing new touchdown stations, new routes for crossing subsea cables, utilizing state-of-the-art know-how and digital innovation to learn the nation’s socio-economic growth.”
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The submarine cable system, which has segments housing as much as 24 fibre pairs able to transmitting 20 Tbps per fibre pair, is about to land in Libya by the top of 2025.
Libya has 13 cable touchdown stations alongside the nation’s north coast, however solely 4 subsea cables join them. The set up of the Medusa submarine cable system in Libya is anticipated to considerably enhance the nation’s connectivity and communication infrastructure.
