OPTICAL FIBERS
The EAPC leads the national project for deploying about 260-km-long optical fibers, using its existing infrastructure between the company’s ports in Ashkelon and in Eilat, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
OPTICAL FIBERS
The EAPC leads the national project for deploying about 260-km-long optical fibers, using its existing infrastructure between the company’s ports in Ashkelon and in Eilat, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
The project will turn the State of Israel into a regional digital center and a significant communication corridor in the Middle East that will connect Europe to the Gulf states and Asia. The EAPC has identified the global trend to use existing infrastructures and the company’s ability to use them as infrastructures for other innovative purposes, especially for digital optical fiber infrastructures.
The main advantage of EAPC’s pipeline route is that it is a continuous, fast and secure land bridge on a short route between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The optical fiber project will contribute to the advancement of commercial and technological cooperation between and Israel and various countries worldwide, with an emphasis on countries with which the Abraham Accords were signed. The optical fibers project will enable regular and rapid communication for residents of the south, will significantly increase the supply of high-tech jobs to the south, and will even constitute an additional connection point for Israel to the world in case of a failure in the northern communication points.
As part of the project, the EAPC intends to construct two landing stations in its facilities in Ashkelon and Eilat, which will be connected to the underwater cables to arrive from Europe (to the EAPC station in Ashkelon) and from Asia and the Middle East (to the EAPC station in Eilat), and will be connected to the communication fibers that will be placed along the company’s route. In addition, the company will connect to the Rabin border crossing (Araba) on the southern side, for the purpose of connecting with the communication providers in Jordan.
According to the plan, the company will use the latest and most advanced optical fiber infrastructure technology used by the world’s leading telecommunications companies and technology companies. The EAPC will lease the fibers to companies with an Israeli communications license for long periods of time, and these will light the dark fibers for their customers. All local media companies will be able to use the company’s route between Ashkelon and Eilat to benefit the residents in the south.
The optical fiber project will also be used to monitor and control the fuel line, which will enable the identification of any changes in the ground (for example digging, penetration or breach of the pipeline, etc.), thus providing an additional layer of safety to the company’s systems.