Landing Point · LY Libya
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-10 through 2026-06-01 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 5 | 154.8 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 235.3 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 223.7 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 142.5 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 286.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 240.8 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 116.2 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 192.4 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 246.0 ms |
Tolmeta is a village located in the northern Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya, approximately 110 kilometres east of Benghazi along the Mediterranean coast. As a coastal settlement, it serves as a landing point for submarine cable infrastructure connecting points along the Libyan shoreline. One submarine cable lands at Tolmeta, the LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network), which links multiple landing points within Libya itself, forming a domestic coastal cable corridor rather than an intercontinental connection.
The LFON cable represents an intra-national submarine link, with all endpoints situated within Libya. This makes Tolmeta part of a network designed to connect Libyan coastal communities to one another via undersea fiber, rather than bridging Libya to other countries in the Mediterranean or beyond.
The LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) is the sole submarine cable landing at Tolmeta. The cable spans 1,639 kilometres and had a ready-for-service (RFS) date of 1999, with a draft status. All other landing points on this cable are also located within Libya, confirming its role as a domestic submarine cable system connecting Libyan coastal towns and cities. No intercontinental or cross-border connections are associated with this cable at Tolmeta.
Within Libya's submarine cable infrastructure, Tolmeta sits alongside several other landing points including Tripoli, Benghazi, Derna, Misuratah, Tobruk, and Al Bayda. With a single cable, Tolmeta is tied with Al Bayda as the least-connected landing point by cable count in Libya, while Tripoli leads with three cables and Benghazi, Derna, Misuratah, and Tobruk each host two. Tolmeta ranks in the upper 64 percent of Libya's 14 landing points by cable count, reflecting the relatively distributed nature of the country's coastal cable infrastructure.
Tolmeta functions as a single-cable terminus within Libya's domestic submarine cable network. Its connection via LFON integrates this eastern Cyrenaican village into a coastal fiber corridor that links Libyan communities along the Mediterranean shoreline. The cable's entirely domestic routing means Tolmeta does not serve as a gateway to international submarine routes, but rather contributes to intra-national connectivity along the Libyan coast.
In the broader Libyan submarine cable graph, Tolmeta represents one of the smaller nodes in a network of 14 landing points spread across the country. Its presence illustrates how Libya's early domestic submarine cable deployment, beginning around 1998 and extending through the late 1990s with the LFON system, reached beyond major urban centres to include smaller coastal settlements in the eastern Cyrenaica region.
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