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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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...
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 Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was a ...
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Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...
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Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...
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Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
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. It was accidentally severed in july of 1998 by a commercial vessel which while anchoring destroyed the cable.


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