Landing Point · CY Cyprus
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Turcyos-2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-10 through 2026-07-11 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 61 | 111.0 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 56 | 277.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 40 | 126.1 ms |
| #55237 | control probe | 30 | 115.6 ms |
| #1015984 own probe | Balancer IL | 16 | 90.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 7 | 97.5 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 138.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 83.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 88.0 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 2 | 238.1 ms |
Iskele, Cyprus is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Cyprus. One international cable system comes ashore here, and together they reach 1 other countries.
Most of the 1 systems here are domestic; the exception reaches Türkiye, making Iskele a stepping stone that carries the region's traffic off Cyprus's national grid toward the wider network.
Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Turcyos-2 (213 km and in service since 2011). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
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.
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.
The largest access networks in Cyprus sit behind this coastal capacity: Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (44.2% of users), Cablenet Communication Systems plc (16% of users), EPIC LTD (12.2% of users) and LIFECELL DIGITAL LTD (7.1% of users). See the full national picture for Cyprus.
This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Pentaskhinos (58 km away, 6 cable systems), Girne (62 km away, 1 cable system) and Bozyazi (125 km away, 1 cable system). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of Cyprus 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 Green flood alert in Türkiye (Apr 2026) near this coastline, and our latency measurements are checked against every such event to see whether the local cables were affected.
In short, Iskele, Cyprus carries international traffic for Cyprus across 1 independent cable system reaching 1 country on 1 continent, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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