El-Quawef, Libya

El-Quawef, Libya is a submarine cable landing point in Libya. One international cable system comes ashore here.

Why cable lands at El-Quawef

All 1 systems landing here are domestic: they tie El-Quawef into Libya's national network rather than crossing a border. The gap they close is internal reach, not international capacity, which is why none of them touches a foreign shore.

The systems in detail

Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Tobrok-Emasaed Cable System (178 km and in service since 2010). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.

What the concentration means for resilience

A single system lands here, so this point is a genuine dependency rather than a redundant one. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.

What our monitoring has recorded

GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 127 route anomalies across 71 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 71 other systems flagged across our coverage.

Latency, measured

From the GeoCables probe network, best-case round-trip time to Libya endpoints runs about 114 ms from Minsk, about 281 ms from Almaty and about 134 ms from Tbilisi. These are paths into Libya from our own vantage points, not a global average, and they shift as operators re-route.

Who depends on it

The largest access networks in Libya sit behind this coastal capacity: Libyana Mobile Phone Company JSC (35.5% of users), General Post and Telecommunication Company (GPTC) (21.3% of users), Aljeel Aljadeed For Technology (15% of users) and Giga for Telecommunication and Technology Limited (14.3% of users). See the full national picture for Libya.

The coast around El-Quawef

This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Tobruk (112 km away, 2 cable systems). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of Libya really has: if one landing fails or a cable needs maintenance, traffic can often be carried through a neighbour.

The physical environment here is monitored too: the GeoCables event feed has logged M4.5 earthquake · 85 km S of Pýrgos, Greece (Jun 2026) near this coastline, and our latency measurements are checked against every such event to see whether the local cables were affected.