Brean, United Kingdom

Brean, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 51.2937°, -3.0109°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Brean is a village and civil parish between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, England. The name is derived from "Bryn"; Brythonic and Modern Welsh for a hill. It has a population of 635. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Brean, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Canada, Ireland. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Brean, United Kingdom in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• EXA Express (2015) — EXA Express is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada. Its 3 landing points at Brean, Cork, Halifax bridge the networks of Europe, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. The transatlantic corridor has been connected by submarine cables since 1858, when the first telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.