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 700 submarine cable systems, based on real RIPE Atlas measurements from 5 probes worldwide.
Nuestro monitor muestra que un paquete Minsk-Islas Cook tarda 507 ms en promedio — un viaje por Bielorrusia, Rusia, Austria, EE. UU., Polinesia Francesa y Rarotonga. Esto es lo que el traceroute revela sobre el enrutamiento real de Internet.
El 14 de abril de 2026, el RTT Saipán–Guam se multiplicó por 13 al paso del tifón Cat 5 Sinlaku. El cable submarino Mariana-Guam estaba intacto: un peering BGP local cayó y el tráfico dio un rodeo de 12 000 km vía Los Ángeles. Anatomía con RIPE Atlas y BGP.
Maroc Telecom posee un cable submarino de 8 600 km que conecta Casablanca con cuatro países de África Occidental. Traza RIPE Atlas real: Casablanca a Libreville en 86 ms, 1,025x del piso físico.
7 amarres de cables submarinos en dos costas, pero los troncos globales bordean Irán. Las trazas RIPE Atlas muestran Irán-Kuwait enrutado vía Frankfurt y Milán: 175 ms para 250 km.
Indonesia tiene 143 puntos de amarre y 72 cables submarinos — 42 domésticos, 30 internacionales. Cómo el Palapa Ring, el megahub de Batam y las inversiones Big Tech conectan 17.000 islas al mundo.
Japon tiene 70 estaciones de aterrizaje y mas de 50 cables submarinos. Nuestros datos: 18 ms a Corea, 106 ms transpacifico, 300+ ms desde Europa.
Medido desde cuatro sondas RIPE Atlas a cuatro IPs reales de Túnez el 12 de abril de 2026: RTT mediano 70 ms, tres de cuatro rutas pasan por el operador italiano Sparkle. Por qué los seis cables tunecinos se alcanzan por uno — y qué cambia Medusa 2026.
El 11 de abril de 2026, un paquete de Minsk a las Islas Cook tardó 1969 ms. Ocho días de mediciones muestran congestión en el cable Manatua invisible para nuestro monitor — porque vive más allá del landing point, dentro de la única red que sirve a 17 500 personas en quince islas.
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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 700 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.