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 mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean 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 bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, ...

.''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

Gbit/s In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits ( bitrate), characters or symbols ( baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system. Common data rate units are mul ...

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

Varna, Bulgaria Varna ( bg, Варна, ) is the 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, the city has been a maj ...

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrat ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

Novorossiysk Novorossiysk ( rus, Новоросси́йск, p=nəvərɐˈsʲijsk; ady, ЦIэмэз, translit=Chəməz, p=t͡sʼɜmɜz) 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 hono ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

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 *Istanb ...

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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 #Odessa, 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