Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli, Libya is a submarine cable landing point in Libya (coordinates 32.8773°, 13.1873°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Libya's international connectivity infrastructure.

Tripoli, historically known as Tripoli-of-the-West, is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.317 million people in 2021. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. It includes the port of Tripoli and the country's largest commercial and manufacturing center. It is also the site of the University of Tripoli. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Tripoli, Libya

Cables landing at Tripoli, Libya are operated by 20 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Altice Portugal, BT, Bayobab, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, Djibouti Telecom, Gibtelecom, Kalaam Telecom, Libya International Telecommunications Company, and 10 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Tripoli, Libya, international traffic can reach 12 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Djibouti, Egypt, Gibraltar, India, Italy, Libya, Monaco, Oman and 4 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Tripoli, Libya 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

• Europe India Gateway (EIG) (2011) — Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a 15,000 km submarine cable that connects twelve countries on three continents — the United Kingdom and Portugal at the European end, then Spain, France, Gibraltar, Monaco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and finally Mumbai, India. Ready for service in 2011, EIG has been in the ground for over a decade. Read more →
• LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) (1999) — LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) is a domestic submarine cable network within Libya, connecting 13 coastal and island locations including Al Bayda, Al Khums, Benghazi, Brega, Derna, and 8 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Italy-Libya (1998) — Italy-Libya is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Italy and Libya. Landing at Mazara del Vallo, Tripoli, 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.