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 Expertise (LUIC), introduced this week that they’ve signed an settlement to increase Medusa to the Libyan coast. The 8,760 km lengthy submarine cable may have two touchdown factors in Libya, connecting the coastal cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, in response to the assertion.
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Geographic Enlargement
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.
Essential cable within the Mediterranean
“Medusa was born with the purpose of being an important 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 all the time been important to attach all of the international locations of North Africa. We’re satisfied that Medusa will mark a optimistic turning level for Libya’s connectivity, and it will have an effect on the area’s financial system.”
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LUIC’s Imaginative and prescient
Libyan United Worldwide Firm for Telecommunication and Expertise (LUIC) acknowledged, “The corporate is engaged on growing and connecting Libya to the world by enhancing connectivity and attaining geographic range of the worldwide submarine cables infrastructure stage. This might be accomplished 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 ready 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 predicted to considerably enhance the nation’s connectivity and communication infrastructure.
