Girne, Cyprus

Girne, Cyprus is a submarine cable landing point in Cyprus (coordinates 35.2991°, 33.2363°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Cyprus's international connectivity infrastructure.

Girne American University is the first private university in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus. The university was founded in 1985 by Serhat Akpınar with the name of University College of Northern Cyprus (UCNC) as an affiliated campus of Southeastern University to offer higher education in American traditions. It is part of YÖDAK, the higher education coordinating council of Northern Cyprus and YÖK, its Turkish parallel. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Girne, Cyprus, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Turkey. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Girne, Cyprus 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

• Turcyos-1 (1993) — Turcyos-1 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Turkey and Cyprus. Landing at Bozyazi, Girne, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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