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Cable landing, Marseille
Marseille, France43.30°N 5.36°E
computed criticality33/100
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Landing point for about fifteen Europe-Africa-Asia cables
2024Data traffic≈ 160 Tbit/s of capacity (~ 1,700 PB/day), 16 cables
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Accumulated at the measured rate since 1 January 2024 · 2019, Capacity Media, estimated design capacity (lit, growing toward 640 Tbit/s)estimate
What passes hereThe western European anchor of Europe-Asia-Africa cables. Entered the global top 10 of hubs in 2018, France's second hub after Paris.
The chokepoint16 submarine cables land here, including AAE-1, SEA-ME-WE, 2Africa, PEACE and Medusa, meeting European terrestrial backbones.
If it closesA local cut can be rerouted to other European landings, but Marseille concentrates the Red Sea corridor, making it a strategic point of failure.
Illustrative counter: it extrapolates the measured average rate, it is not a live feed.Source : Capacity Media, 2019 ↗
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Southern Europe's foremost cable hub, where links to Africa, the Middle East and Asia converge. A rare physical concentration for a single point of the global network.
Depends on 1
Egypt cable corridor, Zafarana / Ras GharebChokepoints · Planetary chokepoint↗Feeds 1
AI data centers, the bottleneck migratesSilicon↗Shocks endured
Three data cables severed in the Red SeaFeb 24, 2024↗Sources
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