Submarine Cable Health Monitor
GeoCables Cable Health Monitor provides real-time monitoring of over 688 submarine fiber optic cables worldwide. Our system continuously measures network latency and detects outages, degradation, and routing anomalies across global undersea infrastructure.
How It Works
We use RIPE Atlas network probes deployed across multiple continents to perform continuous ping and traceroute measurements to landing points of submarine cables. Our anomaly detection engine compares real-time measurements against established baselines to identify potential cable issues including:
- Cable breaks and outages causing complete loss of connectivity
- Latency degradation indicating cable damage or congestion
- Route changes suggesting traffic rerouting around damaged cables
- Packet loss increases pointing to equipment or cable issues
Live Monitoring
Our system performs direct cable health checks every 3 hours using RIPE Atlas probes near cable landing points. We measure RTT between endpoints of each cable, track baselines, and alert when latency exceeds 3Γ the established baseline. Additional city-to-city measurements run every 6 hours from our own probe infrastructure in Minsk (Belarus), Almaty (Kazakhstan), and Tbilisi (Georgia).
Features
- Interactive map showing all 688 submarine cables with real-time health status
- Direct cable RTT measurements with baseline tracking
- Color-coded cables: green (normal), yellow (degraded), red (critical/down)
- Automatic alerting when anomalies are detected
- Three measurement sources: direct cable checks, probe-to-city, and global discovery
- Historical incident timeline
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