The Eastern Mediterranean Optical System (EMOS-1) is a fiber optic cable linking Palermo, Italy with Lechaina, Greece; Marmaris, Turkey and Tel Aviv, Israel, which was created in Turkey in 1991.
Consisting of three pairs which are split en route through branching units.
[1] Each pair of fibres are capable of transmitting 1920 telephone calls in each direction.
In November 1990,[citation needed] the undersea cable EMOS-1, connecting Israel with Turkey, Greece and Italy, was deployed.
Since then, other cables have been laid which have provided large capacity links between Israel and abroad.