Tartous, Syria

Tartous, Syria is a submarine cable landing point in Syria (coordinates 34.8917°, 35.8978°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Syria's international connectivity infrastructure.

Tartus Governorate, officially known as Tartous Governorate, is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Latakia Governorate to the north, Homs and Hama Governorates to the east, Lebanon to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It is one of the few governorates in Syria that has an Alawite majority. Sources list the area as 1,890 km2 or 1,892 km2, with its capital being Tartus. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Tartous, Syria

Cables landing at Tartous, Syria are operated by 16 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including A1 Telekom Austria, AFRIX Telecom, AT&T, BT, Cyta, Deutsche Telekom, Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications, Liban Telecom, Orange, Singtel, and 6 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Tartous, Syria, international traffic can reach 13 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Libya and 5 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Tartous, Syria 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

• Medusa Submarine Cable System (2026) — Medusa is a 8,760 km submarine cable system that lights up in 2026 and links the Mediterranean rim. It lands in a remarkable eighteen stations across thirteen countries — from Carcavelos and Sesimbra on the Portuguese Atlantic, along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Barcelona, through Marseille in France and Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Bizerte, Benghazi, Misuratah, Tr Read more →
• Aletar (1997) — Aletar is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Egypt and Syria. Landing at Alexandria, Tartous, 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 →
• 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 →
• UGARIT (1995) — UGARIT is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Cyprus and Syria. Landing at Pentaskhinos, Tartous, 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.