Cat Island, Bahamas

Cat Island, Bahamas is a submarine cable landing point in Bahamas (coordinates 24.4033°, -75.5259°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Bahamas's international connectivity infrastructure.

Cat Island is located in the Bahamas, and is one of its districts. Cat Island also has the nation's highest point, Mount Alvernia. It rises to 63 metres (207 ft) and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage. This assembly of buildings was erected by the Franciscan "Brother Jerome". Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Cat Island, Bahamas

Cables landing at Cat Island, Bahamas are operated by 19 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Alestra, Bahamas Telecommunications Company, Belize Telemedia, CANTV, Claro Dominicana (Codetel), Enitel, Hondutel, ICE (Kolbi), Internexa, and 9 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Cat Island, Bahamas, international traffic can reach 15 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti and 7 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Cat Island, Bahamas 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

• Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) (2006) — Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Bahamas and Haiti. Landing at Cat Island, Clarence Town, Cockburn Town, Duncan Town, Fresh Creek, and 10 more, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →
• ARCOS (2001) — ARCOS is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 14 countries across Central America, South America, North America. With 24 landing points — including Belize City, Bluefields, Cancún, Cartagena, Cat Island, and 19 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

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