Landing Point · MA Morocco
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Medusa Submarine Cable System | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-04 through 2026-05-07 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 9 | 171.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 9 | 201.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 8 | 242.9 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 6 | 203.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 110.3 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 109.2 ms |
Nador is a coastal city and provincial capital situated in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco, facing the Mediterranean Sea. As a submarine cable landing point, Nador hosts one international submarine cable system, connecting Morocco to a broad set of Mediterranean and European nations. The arrival of the Medusa Submarine Cable System positions Nador within a multi-country Mediterranean corridor spanning North Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Europe.
The single cable landing at Nador enables connectivity across an intercontinental corridor linking Morocco directly to Algeria, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and France. This arc of connections places Nador at the western end of a system that traverses the length of the Mediterranean basin, linking North African coastal nations with major European network hubs.
Medusa Submarine Cable System is an 8,760 km cable system with a ready-for-service date of 2026. In addition to Nador in Morocco, the system connects Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, and Italy. The Medusa system forms a wide Mediterranean ring, reaching eastward through the Eastern Mediterranean and northward into Southern and Western Europe, with Nador serving as the Moroccan terminus of this extended network.
Within Morocco, submarine cable infrastructure is distributed across five landing points: Asilah, Casablanca, Tétouan, Dakhla, and Nador. Asilah, Casablanca, and Tétouan each host two cables, while Nador and Dakhla each host one. With one cable, Nador ranks in the top 40 percent of Moroccan landing points by cable count, placing it on par with Dakhla and just below the more cable-dense hubs on Morocco's Atlantic and northwestern Mediterranean coasts.
Nador functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with its entire international connectivity provided by the Medusa Submarine Cable System. Through Medusa, the landing point participates in a Mediterranean-wide network that connects Morocco to six other countries across three subregions: North Africa (Algeria and Egypt), the Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus and Greece), and Western Europe (Italy and France). The cable's 2026 RFS date makes Nador one of Morocco's newer submarine cable landing points.
Within the broader Mediterranean submarine cable graph, Nador's position at the western edge of the Medusa system means it bridges Morocco's northeastern coast into an extensive multi-country loop. This makes Nador a geographically distinct Moroccan entry point into Mediterranean connectivity, complementing the country's other landing points that predominantly face the Atlantic or the Strait of Gibraltar approaches.
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