Al Ghaydah, Yemen

Al Ghaydah, Yemen is a submarine cable landing point in Yemen (coordinates 16.2104°, 52.1824°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Yemen's international connectivity infrastructure.

Al Ghaydah is the capital city of Al Mahrah Governorate in south-eastern Yemen. It is one of the easternmost cities in the country, located near Yemen's border with Oman. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Al Ghaydah, Yemen, international traffic can reach 14 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman and 6 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Al Ghaydah, Yemen in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• FALCON (2006) — Every submarine cable has an owner. Most have had two. FALCON has survived three bankruptcies — and is still carrying traffic across fourteen countries, from Egypt to Sri Lanka, through some of the most politically complex waters on Earth. The Cable That Outlived Its Owners FALCON stands for FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network. Read more →

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