ALETAR

Last updated October 18, 2025

ALETAR is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Egypt and Syria.

Alexandria, Egypt.^[1]
Tartous, Syria.^[1]

It has a design transmission capacity of 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 787 kilometres (489 mi). It started operation on 7 April 1997.

References

1 2 "Egypt - Syria Fibre Optic Submarine cable Aletar". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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[:0-1] 1 2 "Egypt - Syria Fibre Optic Submarine cable Aletar". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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