CIOS (cable system)
Cyprus-Israel Optical System 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.