Athens, Greece

Athens, Greece is a submarine cable landing point in Greece (coordinates 37.9761°, 23.7363°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Greece's international connectivity infrastructure.

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Athens, Greece

Cables landing at Athens, Greece are operated by 4 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AFRIX Telecom, EMC Subsea Cable Company Limited, Sparkle, Vodafone. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Athens, Greece, international traffic can reach 16 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Libya and 8 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Athens, Greece in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• EMC West-1 (2027) — EMC West-1 is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Greece, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Israel. Its 5 landing points at Athens, Genoa, Haql, Netanya, Tympaki bridge the networks of Europe, Middle East, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Thetis Express (2027) — Thetis Express is a submarine cable system operating within Greece, with landing points at Athens, Heraklion. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →
• Medusa Submarine Cable System (2026) — Medusa is a 8,760 km submarine cable system that lights up in 2026 and links the Mediterranean rim. It lands in a remarkable eighteen stations across thirteen countries — from Carcavelos and Sesimbra on the Portuguese Atlantic, along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Barcelona, through Marseille in France and Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Bizerte, Benghazi, Misuratah, Tr Read more →
• MedNautilus Submarine System (2001) — MedNautilus Submarine System is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Europe and Middle East, with 7 landing points across 5 countries including Athens, Greece, Catania, Italy, Chania, Greece, Istanbul, Turkey and others. The cable provides cross-continental connectivity, offering an important route for data traffic between Europe and Middle East. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.