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MENA (cable system)

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Type
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Cairo, Egypt

Website
  
http://www.mena-scs.com/

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 be deliver up to 5.76 terabits per second.

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). RFS date Q1 2012

    References

    MENA (cable system) Wikipedia
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