ITUR (from English Italy - Turkey - Ukraine - Russia ) is an underwater fiber-optic cable laid along the bottom of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, providing communications for the mentioned countries.
The Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) submarine fiber-optic cable system was built and commissioned in 1996. Co-owners of the ITUR cable system are 36 foreign telecommunication companies. The main co-owners of the system and its serving administrations are the companies: Telecom Italy Sparkle ( TIS ), Turktelecom ( TT ), Ukrtelecom and Rostelecom [1]
There are connections to the ITUR fiber optic cable system in the following places:
- Palermo , Sicily , Italy
- Istanbul , Turkey
- Odessa , Ukraine
- Novorossiysk , Russia
See also
- Kafos
Notes
Links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070930122255/http://foptnet.ge/map2eng.htm Cable system map including 3 cable communication systems: BSFOCS , KAFOS , ITUR