Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt is a submarine cable landing point in Egypt (coordinates 27.9122°, 34.3297°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Egypt's international connectivity infrastructure.

Sharm El Sheikh is a coastal city in the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt. It lies on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, and located on the coastal strip along the Red Sea in Asia. Its population is approximately 77,000 as of 2017. Sharm El Sheikh is the administrative center of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab, Taba, and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, St. Catherine and Mount Sinai. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Saudi Arabia. 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 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds.

About the cables

• Mobily Red Sea Cable (MRSC) (2027) — Mobily Red Sea Cable (MRSC) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Landing at Duba, Sharm el-Sheikh, 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.