Das Island, United Arab Emirates

Das Island, United Arab Emirates is a submarine cable landing point in United Arab Emirates (coordinates 25.1526°, 52.8660°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Arab Emirates's international connectivity infrastructure.

Das Island is an Emirati island in the Persian Gulf. It lies about 100 miles (160 km) north-west of the UAE mainland; Qatar is also close by. It covers approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) by 1.5 miles (2.4 km), and was almost rectangular in shape, but was significantly expanded to the south by artificial additions for a new runway and new accommodation in 2016. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Das Island, United Arab Emirates, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Qatar, United Arab Emirates. 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 Das Island, United Arab Emirates 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

• 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.