Landing Point · AO Angola
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| SAT-3/WASC | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-14 through 2026-06-29 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 4.2 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 2.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 2.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 25.1 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 1.0 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 1.1 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 2 | 1.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 0.5 ms |
| #1015984 own probe | Balancer IL | 2 | 60.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 1.3 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 10.3 ms |
Cacuaco is a city and municipality within Luanda Province on the Atlantic coast of Angola, functioning as a suburb of the national capital, Luanda. As a coastal location, Cacuaco hosts submarine cable infrastructure that connects Angola to the broader network of West African nations. One submarine cable lands at Cacuaco, placing it among the seven submarine cable landing points distributed across Angola.
The single cable landing at Cacuaco is the SAT-3/WASC system, a major West African coastal cable that links Angola with Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, and Nigeria. This connection situates Cacuaco within a regional corridor running along the Gulf of Guinea and the wider West African seaboard, enabling data and communications exchange between Angola and its northern maritime neighbors.
SAT-3/WASC is a submarine cable system with a total length of 14,350 km, which reached ready-for-service status in 2002. It connects Angola at Cacuaco to Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, and Nigeria. The SAT-3/WASC system was the first submarine cable to land in Angola, establishing Cacuaco's place in the international submarine cable network. Its reach across multiple West African countries makes it a geographically extensive regional cable, spanning the coastline from the Gulf of Guinea southward to Angola.
Among Angola's seven submarine cable landing points, Cacuaco hosts one cable, placing it alongside Cabinda, Cacongo, Luanda, N'zeto, and Soyo, each of which also hosts a single cable. Sangano stands apart as the most connected landing point in Angola, with two cables. Cacuaco therefore sits within the larger group of single-cable landing points that collectively form Angola's distributed coastal cable infrastructure.
Cacuaco functions as a single-cable terminus on Angola's Atlantic coastline, anchoring the southern end of the SAT-3/WASC system's West African routing. Through this connection, Cacuaco enables direct submarine cable linkages between Angola and six other West African nations — Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, and Nigeria — supporting regional connectivity along one of Africa's most populated coastal corridors. The SAT-3/WASC cable, having entered service in 2002, represents Angola's earliest engagement with international submarine cable infrastructure.
As a single-cable landing point within a country served by five cables across seven locations, Cacuaco contributes a geographically distinct node to Angola's submarine cable graph. Its position within the densely populated Luanda Province, combined with the regional reach of SAT-3/WASC, gives Cacuaco a defined role in the West African coastal cable network.
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