title: ALETAR
text: # ALETAR
  
  ALETAR is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Egypt and Syria.
  
  It has landing points in:
  
  * Alexandria, Egypt.
  * Tartous, Syria.
  
  It has a design transmission capacity of 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 787 kilometres (489 mi). It started operation on 7 April 1997.
  
  