SEA-SPINE’s overall objective is to construct 7 new submarine optical fiber links in the Aegean Sea, along with the required terrestrial and fiber optic networking works, towards
- substantially increasing network capacity
- reducing network latency for critical applications
- as well as ensuring traffic protection
through link redundancy and multiple path-based impact mitigation in case of link failures.
The novel submarine links involve 11 Greek islands, namely Amorgos, Astypalea, Kos, Sifnos, Folegandros, Euboea, Chios, Lesvos, Limnos, Thasos, and Skyros, while the overall length of the newly deployed submarine backbone infrastructure will extend across 563 km for the submarine segment and 231 km for the terrestrial one that will interconnect the submarine links to the respective exchange points