The most direct and reliable fibre route between Italy, Greece and Turkey, built into a live gas pipeline corridor.
TAE is a joint venture between EXA Infrastructure and Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP), owner of the gas pipeline carrying energy from the Caspian to southern Italy. Two fibre cables run alongside the pipeline, plus a subsea crossing under the Adriatic.
EXA Infrastructure built and operates 1,300+ km of fibre interconnect linking the route to its regional hubs, Bari, Tirana, Athens, Sofia and Istanbul. It's fully integrated into the wider EXA Infrastructure global network, not a standalone system sitting apart from everything else we run.
Support and 24/7 operations run from the Dublin NOC, the same team managing the rest of the EXA network. There's no separate support structure to navigate, TAE gets the same operational standard as every other route we own.
The fibre is buried 1 to 10m alongside Critical National Infrastructure, with strict no-dig (4+4m) and no-build (20+20m) zones and regular patrols, up to eight times fewer cuts than fibre laid in public roads.
The pipeline takes a very direct route, the shortest path between Italy and Istanbul, with 39 directional-drill river crossings and 3 micro tunnels. Milan and Istanbul have never been closer.
A genuinely independent corridor from Istanbul into Europe, away from the standard Mediterranean routes.
TAE is a joint venture between EXA Infrastructure and Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG, built alongside TAP's gas pipeline to give the most direct, reliable fibre route between Italy, Greece and Turkey.
Dedicated optical capacity on owned infrastructure, provisioned to the tier you need today with room to step up as demand grows.
Raw optical spectrum for carriers who want to run their own equipment on the route rather than take a managed service.
Access to the latest-generation, low-loss fibre pairs for operators who want to build and manage their own layer on top. (G.652D, subject to availability)
Space at in-line amplifier sites along the route, for operators who need to sit close to the physical path itself.
Our read: TAE delivered both diversity and lower latency. The result: secondary path live in 8 weeks.
Our read: TAE plus an existing partner cable gave them the diversity they needed. The result: full triple-path redundancy.
Our read: dedicated capacity, not best-effort. The result: deterministic latency on a dedicated wavelength.
Future subsea systems landing in Crete and Athens will look for onward routes to Milan, Sofia and Istanbul. TAE is built to be that onward corridor, as Milan's role as a hub keeps growing.
