LEV is a 2600km submarince cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Italy, Cyprus and Israel.
The LEV cable system has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbps, ready for service in March 1999.
The LEV cable consists of 2 fiber pairs. Each fiber pair has the initial design capacity of 8 wavelengths of 2.5G. The LEV cable system forms a ring pretection among the cable landing station, each 2 landing points have exactly one fiber pair connecting them, forming one fiber ring with total capacity of 20Gbps.
The LEV cable system lands at the following stations: