Saida, Lebanon

Saida, Lebanon is a submarine cable landing point in Lebanon (coordinates 33.4502°, 35.3863°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Lebanon's international connectivity infrastructure.

Sidon, or Saida, is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, to the south, and the Lebanese capital of Beirut, to the north, are each about 40 kilometres away. Sidon has a population of about 80,000 within the city limits, while its metropolitan area has more than a quarter-million inhabitants. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Saida, Lebanon, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Lebanon, Syria. 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 Saida, Lebanon 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

• BERYTAR (1997) — BERYTAR is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Lebanon and Syria. Landing at Beirut, Saida, Tartous, Tripoli, 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.