MENA SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS

MENA-SCS (Middle East and North Africa Submarine Cable System) is a subsidiary of OTMT (Orascom Telecom Media and Technology). MENA-SCS owns and operates a submarine telecommunications system (MENA Cable) connecting Europe to the Middle East and South East Asia. MENA Cable spans three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia). Currently the cable lands in five countries, Italy, Egypt, KSA, Oman, India and in conjunction with TW1 cable in UAE and Pakistan. The cable also includes branching units to cover Greece, Sudan and Djibouti. It consists of six fiber pairs, each pair expandable to 8 TB/s totaling to an ultimate capacity of 48 TB/s. MENA cable length is 9,030km of which 930km is a terrestrial fiber cable crossing Egypt.