The Black Sea Fiber-Optic Cable System (BSFOCS) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking three countries bordering the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

.''International Bandwidth 2005: Black Sea Fiber Optic Cable System (BSFOCS)''
PRIMETRICA, INC, 2005. It went into operation in September 2001, and has a total capacity of 20

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along 2 fiber pairs. It has landing points in: #

Varna, Bulgaria Varna (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in the Northern Bulgaria region. Situated strategically in the Gulf of Varna, t ...

Odesa Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern ...

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Novorossiysk Novorossiysk (, ; ) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is one of the largest ports on the Black Sea. It is one of the few cities designated by the Soviet Union as a Hero City. The population was History In antiquity, the shores of the ...

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References

https://web.archive.org/web/20070930122255/http://foptnet.ge/map2eng.htm
Map of the cable system (3 Systems BSFOCS,

KAFOS KAFOS (Karadeniz Fiber Optik Sistemi - ''Black Sea Fibre Optic System'') is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Black Sea linking Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It has landing points in: *Mangalia, Romania *Varna, Bulgaria *Istanbu ...

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ITUR ITUR (Italy - Turkey - Ukraine - Russia) is a submarine communications cable system linking the aforementioned countries. It has landing points in: #Palermo, Sicily, Italy #Istanbul, Turkey #Odesa, Ukraine #Novorossiysk, Russia References htt ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bsfocs Submarine communications cables in the Black Sea Bulgaria–Russia relations Russia–Ukraine relations Bulgaria–Ukraine relations Internet in Bulgaria 2001 establishments in Bulgaria 2001 establishments in Russia 2001 establishments in Ukraine