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CIOS (cable system)

Cyprus-Israel Optical System (CIOS) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Cyprus and Israel.

Overview

CIOS has landing points in Ayia Napa (), Cyprus and Nahariya (), Israel].

It has a design transmission capacity of 622 Mbit/s and a total cable length of 250 km. The system was supplied by AT&T Submarine Systems and was the longest non-repeatered commercial system at the time.

Operations began on 11 April 1994.

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