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MENA (cable system)

cable system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2023
Entity authorityQ6715379 ↗
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Middle East North Africa (MENA) is a submarine communications cable system that is planned to connect Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and India.

It will be about 9,000 kilometres (5,600 mi) long and is planned to deliver up to 5.76 terabits per second.

In 2018, Telecom Egypt announced its acquisition of the cable from Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding.

Cable landing stations

It will have cable landing points at:

Mazara, Italy

Crete, Greece

Alexandria, Egypt

Then overland to

Za'frana, Egypt

Then onwards as a submarine cable again to

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Seeb, Oman

Mumbai, India

Total length of the Cable is 9,100 kilometres (5,700 mi).

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