Landing Point · LY Libya
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-10 through 2026-05-29 — 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 | 5 | 168.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 169.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 5 | 150.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 153.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 176.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 277.8 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 192.4 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 228.9 ms |
Zawia is a city in northwestern Libya, situated on the Mediterranean coastline approximately 47 kilometres west of Tripoli, in the historic region of Tripolitania. As the capital of the Zawiya District, it occupies a position along a stretch of Libyan coast that hosts several submarine cable landing points. One submarine cable makes landfall at Zawia, connecting it to Libya's broader domestic fiber optic infrastructure.
The single cable landing at Zawia is the LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network), a domestic system whose endpoints lie entirely within Libya. This makes Zawia a node in a national submarine cable corridor rather than an international gateway, linking Libyan coastal communities along the Mediterranean seabed. The LFON system was among the earliest submarine cable deployments in Libya, with a ready-for-service date recorded in 1999.
The LFON (Libyan Fiber Optic Network) is a submarine cable system stretching 1,639 kilometres, with a ready-for-service date of 1999. The cable connects multiple landing points within Libya, making it a wholly domestic system with all endpoints situated along the Libyan coast. Its purpose is to provide intra-national submarine connectivity between Libyan cities rather than to establish international links. The system carries a draft status in cable records.
Among Libya's 14 submarine cable landing points, Zawia hosts one cable, placing it alongside Al Bayda as one of the country's single-cable landing points. By comparison, Tripoli serves as the most connected landing point in Libya with three cables, while Benghazi, Derna, Misuratah, and Tobruk each host two cables. Zawia ranks in the upper 64 percent of Libyan landing points by cable count, reflecting a modest but established position within the national submarine cable network.
Zawia functions as a single-cable terminus on the LFON domestic network, contributing to the coastal chain of Libyan landing points connected by that system. Because the LFON cable links destinations entirely within Libya, Zawia's role is oriented toward national connectivity along the Mediterranean shoreline rather than toward intercontinental or cross-Mediterranean routes. The landing point does not currently serve as a hub for international submarine traffic.
Within the Libyan submarine cable graph, Zawia represents one of several smaller coastal nodes that, taken together with larger hubs such as Tripoli, form a distributed national undersea network. Its inclusion in the LFON system positions Zawia as a participant in Libya's earliest submarine cable deployment, extending domestic fiber optic reach to the northwestern coast of the country.
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