Landing Point · QA Qatar
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Gulf Bridge International Cable System/Middle East North Africa Cable System (GBICS/MENA) | Planned |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-16 through 2026-05-28 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 199.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 219.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 156.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 166.2 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 185.2 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 168.0 ms |
Al Daayen is a municipality in Qatar situated in close proximity to the capital, Doha. As a coastal location on the Arabian Gulf, Al Daayen hosts submarine cable infrastructure that connects Qatar to a broader regional network spanning the Gulf and extending beyond. One submarine cable lands at Al Daayen, linking Qatar to a corridor of countries across the Middle East and into South Asia.
The single cable landing here is the Gulf Bridge International Cable System/Middle East North Africa Cable System, commonly referred to as GBICS/MENA. This system positions Al Daayen as a node within a multi-country Gulf and Indian Ocean network, enabling connectivity across a corridor that includes Bahrain, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Oman alongside Qatar.
The Gulf Bridge International Cable System/Middle East North Africa Cable System (GBICS/MENA) is the sole submarine cable landing at Al Daayen. Currently listed as a draft system, it connects Qatar with six other countries: Bahrain, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Oman. The cable spans a network that bridges the Gulf states with the Indian subcontinent, forming a regional and intercontinental corridor along the northern rim of the Arabian Sea and through the Persian Gulf.
Within Qatar's submarine cable infrastructure, Al Daayen is one of five landing points hosting a total of nine cables across the country. Doha leads among Qatari landing points with six cables, while Al Ghariya hosts two, and both Al-Kheesa and Halul Island, like Al Daayen, each host one cable. Al Daayen therefore sits among the single-cable landing points in Qatar, placing it in the middle tier of the country's broader cable geography by cable count.
Al Daayen functions as a single-cable terminus within Qatar's submarine cable network. Through the GBICS/MENA system, it participates in a Gulf-wide corridor that connects multiple Arabian Peninsula states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, and Oman — as well as Iran and India. This configuration means the landing point serves both intra-Gulf regional connectivity and an intercontinental link toward the Indian subcontinent.
While Al Daayen is not a multi-cable hub on the scale of Doha, its participation in the GBICS/MENA system ensures it holds a defined place in the regional submarine cable graph, contributing an additional termination point to Qatar's overall capacity for distributed cable landings along its coastline.
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