Landing Point · EG Egypt
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| 2Africa | Active |
| FALCON | Active |
| FEA | Planned |
| FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) | Active |
| IMEWE | Active |
| Red2Med | Active |
| SeaMeWe-4 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-02 through 2026-05-29 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 45 | 116.3 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 43 | 338.7 ms |
| #7595 | control probe | 30 | 255.6 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 7 | 147.1 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 133.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 200.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 151.0 ms |
Suez, Egypt is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Egypt. 6 international cable systems come ashore here, and together they reach 45 other countries across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. Few landing points on any continent connect directly to as many.
Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. Its 6 systems give Suez direct international reach to United Arab Emirates, Angola, Bahrain and Congo - Kinshasa and beyond (45 countries in all), the role that justified building international cable here rather than routing through an inland neighbour.
The roster spans 19 years of build-out, from SeaMeWe-4 (2005) to 2Africa (2024). Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: 2Africa (45,000 km and in service since 2024), FALCON (10,300 km and in service since 2006), IMEWE (12,091 km and in service since 2010), Red2Med (420 km and in service since 2023) and SeaMeWe-4 (20,000 km and in service since 2005). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
With 6 independent systems, Egypt has real redundancy through this point: no single cable cut isolates it from the destinations they share. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 122 route anomalies across 68 cable systems worldwide. Two have touched this location's own cables: a 131% round-trip latency spike on 2Africa (2026-03-15, recovered by 2026-03-16) and a 119% round-trip latency spike on 2Africa (2026-03-10, recovered by 2026-03-11). These were latency events on the systems' wider routes, not outages at the landing itself, and they cleared on their own. This record grows as we detect more, which is the difference between a directory entry and a monitored asset.
The largest access networks in Egypt sit behind this coastal capacity: IDDQD-AS (72.2% of users), Vodafone Data (14.1% of users), ETISALAT MISR (9.3% of users) and The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) (5.1% of users). See the full national picture for Egypt.
In short, Suez, Egypt carries international traffic for Egypt across 6 independent cable systems reaching 45 countries on 4 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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