EMC West-2

EMC West-2 is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Israel, Saudi Arabia, France, Greece. Its 4 landing points at Ashkelon, Haql, Marseille, Tympaki bridge the networks of Middle East, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. The Europe-Middle East corridor runs through the Mediterranean and Red Sea, one of the most strategically important — and vulnerable — cable routes on Earth. GeoCables maintains health checks on this cable using distributed RIPE Atlas probes, with automated anomaly detection triggered when RTT exceeds 4x the historical baseline.