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CADMOS is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the
Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
linking Cyprus and the Lebanon. It has landing points in: *
Pentaskhinos Pentaskhinos is the location of a submarine communications cable system landing point on the island of Cyprus. The following cable systems land at Pentaskhinos: *MedNautilus *MINERVA * CADMOS *UGARIT ) , image =Ugarit Corbel.jpg , image_size=3 ...
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Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
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Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
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Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
It has a design transmission capacity of 622 Mbit/s and a total cable length of 230 km. It started operation on 8 September 1995.


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* Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea 1995 establishments in Cyprus 1995 establishments in Lebanon {{telecomm-stub