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 . It started operation on 7 April 1997. References

Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Egypt–Syria relations
1997 establishments in Egypt
1997 establishments in Syria