Smart Cable Routing
Dijkstra-based routing through real submarine cables and landing points from TeleGeography data. Accurate distance multipliers for land and undersea segments.
In-depth analysis of how internet traffic moves through 703 submarine cable systems, based on real RIPE Atlas measurements from 5 probes worldwide.
El 3 de junio de 2026, un terremoto de magnitud 4,57 ocurrió aproximadamente a 6 km al noroeste-noroeste de Kahaluu-Keauhou, Hawái.
Los submarinos con puntos de aterrizaje dentro de 350 km, incluyendo la Red del Cables Southern Cross y Honotua, están operando normalmente actualmente. Nuestras mediciones de latencia indican que el evento sismológico no ha tenido ningún impacto en estas conexiones críticas.June 1, 2026 - GeoCables experimentó un día limpio y estable sin anomalías ni alertas activas en nuestra red. Durante las últimas 24 horas, realizamos 1852 comprobaciones de latencia/ruta sobre 517 de los 703 cables submarinos catalogados, asegurando una monitoreo robusto a gran escala. El estado general de la red sigue siendo fuerte, reflejando un entorno operativo calmado.
Notablemente, varios cables mostraron variaciones menores en el rendimiento del señalamiento. Por ejemplo, PGASCOM resolvió una alerta con un aumento significativo en el tiempo de ida y vuelta (RTT) (+100%). Otros cables como TIKAL-AMX3 y SPCS/Mistral experimentaron aumentos del 258% y 184%, respectivamente, mientras que ARCOS vio un salto del 171%. Estas fluctuaciones están dentro de la operativa normal de jitter y no indican ningún problema significativo o daño en la infraestructura de los cables submarinos.
El evento en Indonesia afectó la operación de los cables submarinos, lo que provocó un aumento en las demoras. Nuestra análisis proporciona información detallada sobre el estado actual.
M6.0 Earthquake near Antigua & Barbuda — Submarine Cable Monitoring Report
Japan M6.7 Earthquake — Submarine Cable Status Report May 15, 2026 · GeoCables Report · Region: Japan, Pacific Coast
Del 17 de abril al 7 de mayo de 2026, la latencia de Tannat entre Argentina y Brasil pasó de 25 ms a 506 ms — veinte veces el mínimo físico. Doce alertas, cables vecinos sin incidencias.
GeoCables detectó 82 anomalías de latencia en 49 cables submarinos durante 53 días. 16 superaron nuestro umbral de alta gravedad. Cada evento, cartografiado.
El RTT Tiflis-Adén es de 790 ms — y el camino va por Frankfurt, luego por Starlink, hasta Yemen. Con los cables del mar Rojo fuera de servicio por el conflicto, el satélite es ahora la ruta funcional.
RTT Almaty-Tokio: 877 ms — 16 veces el mínimo ortodrómico. La traceroute revela la ruta: Kazajistán-Londres-Singapur-Japón, 21.000 km de fibra para una ciudad a 5.400 km.
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Dijkstra-based routing through real submarine cables and landing points from TeleGeography data. Accurate distance multipliers for land and undersea segments.
Interactive map showing every cable your data touches — backbone nodes, landing stations, and submarine segments with real geographic coordinates.
Launch real network measurements from probes worldwide. Compare theoretical estimates with actual RTT and hop-by-hop packet journeys with ISP geolocation.
Speed-of-light physics combined with cable distance to estimate latency. See the real-world overhead — how much slower actual routing is vs fiber limits.
Enter cities, IP addresses, or domain names — everything is resolved to coordinates with hosting location identification and optimal cable route.
Traceroute hops enriched with city, country, ISP. Phases auto-detected: local → ISP → CDN → backbone → submarine cable. Visual RTT timelines.
City names, IP addresses, or domains. The system resolves coordinates, identifies countries, and determines whether the route crosses oceans.
A graph algorithm finds the optimal route through landing points and submarine cables with accurate distance multipliers for each segment type.
One click launches RIPE Atlas probes for real ping and traceroute. See actual RTT, identify every router, and find where your packet enters submarine cables.
Validate routing assumptions, estimate latency budgets, troubleshoot unexpected paths.
Understand your ping. Compare the physical speed limit vs reality for any server.
Choose optimal PoP locations based on submarine cable topology and landing proximity.
Teach how the physical internet works. Visualize the gap between light speed and real routing.
Over 500 submarine cable systems span the world's oceans, with a combined length of approximately 1.4 million kilometers — enough to circle the Earth 35 times.
Submarine cables carry over 99% of intercontinental data traffic. Despite what many people think, satellites handle only a tiny fraction of global internet traffic.
Light travels through fiber optic cable at about two-thirds the speed of light in vacuum. A signal from London to New York takes approximately 28 milliseconds one way.
Modern submarine cables are designed to last 25 years. Cables are buried in the seabed near shores and laid directly on the ocean floor in deep water, protected by layers of steel and polyethylene.
The deepest submarine cables reach the abyssal plains at nearly 8,000 meters. At these depths, cables rest on the ocean floor under enormous pressure, beyond the reach of anchors and fishing gear.
Major transoceanic cable projects like 2Africa or PEACE cost over $1 billion. Investment comes from tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as telecom consortiums.
GeoCables is a research publication on the physical infrastructure of the global internet. We publish in-depth analyses of how data actually travels between countries — which submarine cables are used, what the measured latency is, and why it differs from the theoretical minimum.
Our research is grounded in real RIPE Atlas measurements collected from five probes we operate in Minsk, Almaty, Tbilisi, Jerusalem, and Sevastopol. We trace specific routes across 703 submarine cable systems and 1,900+ landing points cataloged by TeleGeography, then publish what we find.
Light through fiber travels at ~200,000 km/s — about two-thirds the speed of light in vacuum. That sets the theoretical floor for round-trip time. In practice, real RTT is 1.5–4× higher due to routing detours, optical amplifiers, protocol processing, peering between networks, and suboptimal path selection. Our research articles document this overhead on specific routes — measuring it, explaining it, and tracing it back to the cables and networks responsible.