Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is a submarine cable landing point in United Arab Emirates (coordinates 24.4438°, 54.4189°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in United Arab Emirates's international connectivity infrastructure.

Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The city is the seat of the Abu Dhabi Central Capital District, the capital city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the UAE's second-most populous city, after Dubai. The city is situated on a T-shaped island, extending into the Persian Gulf from the central-western coast of the UAE. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Cables landing at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates are operated by 24 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bayobab, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Meta, Microsoft, and 14 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, international traffic can reach 39 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt and 31 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Fibre in Gulf (FIG) (2027) — Fibre in Gulf (FIG) is a regional submarine cable connecting 7 countries — United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and others — with 7 landing points including Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Al Faw, Iraq, Al Ghariya, Qatar, Al Hidd, Bahrain and others. Read more →
• SeaMeWe-6 (2026) — SeaMeWe-6 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 15 countries across Middle East, South Asia, East Africa. With 17 landing points — including Abu Dhabi, Chennai, Cox’s Bazar, Djibouti City, Doha, and 12 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• Qatar-U.A.E. Submarine Cable System (2004) — Qatar-U.A.E. Submarine Cable System is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Landing at Abu Dhabi, Das Island, Doha, Halul Island, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.