Landing Point · AE United Arab Emirates
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Sir Abu Nu’ayr Cable | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-28 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 | 5 | 188.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 211.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 300.9 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 175.2 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 4 | 197.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 157.8 ms |
Sharjah is a major port city on the Arabian Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. As the capital of the Emirate of Sharjah and the country's third-most populous city, it occupies a significant position within the UAE's coastal geography. One submarine cable currently lands at Sharjah, connecting the city to the broader regional submarine cable network.
The single cable landing at Sharjah, the Sir Abu Nu'ayr Cable, operates within an intra-UAE corridor, linking Sharjah to the island of Sir Abu Nu'ayr, which lies offshore in the Arabian Gulf. This makes Sharjah a terminus for a short-haul, inter-island domestic connection rather than an intercontinental or long-distance international route.
The Sir Abu Nu'ayr Cable is the sole submarine cable landing at Sharjah. Spanning 84 kilometres, it reached ready-for-service status in 2018 and remains in draft status. The cable connects Sharjah with Sir Abu Nu'ayr Island, both of which are part of the United Arab Emirates, making this an entirely domestic submarine link. No other countries are served by this cable.
Within the United Arab Emirates, submarine cable infrastructure is spread across seven landing points hosting a combined total of 21 cables. Sharjah, with one cable, ranks in the top 43 percent of UAE landing points by cable count, sitting alongside Das Island, which also hosts a single cable. By comparison, Fujairah dominates the national picture with 14 cables, followed by Abu Dhabi with four and Dubai and Kalba each with three.
Sharjah functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its submarine cable connection is directed entirely inward, serving the domestic link between the mainland UAE coast and Sir Abu Nu'ayr Island via an 84-kilometre route. This positions Sharjah outside the major international submarine cable corridors that pass through the UAE, which are concentrated predominantly at Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman coast.
Within the UAE's broader submarine cable graph, Sharjah represents a specialised domestic node, providing dedicated connectivity to an offshore island location rather than contributing to transcontinental capacity. Its role is therefore distinct from that of the larger UAE landing points, and it reflects the diversity of submarine cable purposes — ranging from short domestic inter-island links to long international routes — found across the seven landing points that together form the UAE's submarine cable infrastructure.
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