Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Sirius North | Active |
Carrickfergus, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 54.7137°, -5.8082°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.
Carrickfergus is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, 11 miles (18 km) from Belfast. The town had a population of 28,141 at the 2021 census. It is County Antrim's oldest town and one of the oldest towns in Ireland as a whole. Carrickfergus Castle, built in the late 12th century at the behest of Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy, was the capital of the Earldom of Ulster. After the earldom's collapse, it remained the only English outpost in Ulster for the next four centuries. Carrickfergus was the administrative centre for Carrickfergus Borough Council, before this was amalgamated into the Mid and East Antrim District Council in 2015, and forms part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area. It is also a townland of 65 acres, a civil parish and a barony. Wikipedia
| Cable | RFS | Length | Owners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirius North | 1999 | 147 km | Virgin Media Business |
From Carrickfergus, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include United Kingdom. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.
No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Carrickfergus, 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.
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