Round-trip time between cities on routes through this region, from RIPE Atlas. Latency above the probes’ measured baseline can have many causes; it is never treated as proof of a cable fault.
Narrow passages where many cables share one route, so a single anchor drag or seabed event can damage several at once. Counts are cables whose published route crosses a line drawn across the passage.
The southern entrance to the Red Sea, between Yemen and Djibouti, on the main Europe–Asia route.
2Africa, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1), PEACE Cable, SeaMeWe-4, SeaMeWe-5, Europe India Gateway (EIG) and 6 more · 4 planned
Between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, linking the Indian Ocean with Singapore.
PEACE Cable, SeaMeWe-4, SeaMeWe-5, MIST, India Asia Xpress (IAX), i2i Cable Network (i2icn) and 2 more · 2 planned
Between Iran and Oman, the only sea route into the Persian Gulf.
2Africa, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1), FALCON, Gulf Bridge International Cable System/Middle East North Africa Cable System (GBICS/MENA), OMRAN/EPEG · 2 planned
The longest cables in service with part of their route in this region.
Cables are listed when any part of their route crosses the region. Routes are approximate. Cable data © TeleGeography, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
