Coral Bridge subsea cable connects Egypt and Jordan after 25 years

Egypt and NaiTel have completed the laying of the "Coral Bridge" subsea cable connecting Egypt and Jordan, marking the first direct subsea cable between the two countries in over 25 years, according to a press release issued Thursday.

The 15-kilometer cable has landed in Taba, Egypt, and Aqaba, Jordan, creating an express digital link across the Gulf of Aqaba. The cable is equipped with 48 fiber pairs and designed to transport over 1 Petabit of data traffic.

On the Egyptian side, Coral Bridge is the first telecommunications subsea system to land at Telecom Egypt’s new cable landing point in Taba, part of the company’s recently established international digital infrastructure in the Sinai Peninsula.

In Jordan, the cable landed at Aqaba Digital Hub’s (ADH) Tier III carrier-neutral facility, which supports redundancy and recovery strategies for businesses, including enterprises and hyperscalers hosted in the data center.

The cable is designed to provide seamless onward connectivity across Asia, Africa, and Europe by leveraging both countries’ strategic locations and Telecom Egypt’s extensive subsea ecosystem.