Cayenne, French Guiana

Cayenne, French Guiana is a submarine cable landing point in French Guiana (coordinates 4.9224°, -52.3135°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in French Guiana's international connectivity infrastructure.

Cayenne is the prefecture and capital city of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the Cayenne River on the Atlantic coast. The city's motto is "fert aurum industria", which means "work brings wealth". Cayenne is the largest Francophone city of the South American continent. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Cayenne, French Guiana

Cables landing at Cayenne, French Guiana are operated by 2 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Digicel, EllaLink. 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 Cayenne, French Guiana, international traffic can reach 8 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Brazil, Cape Verde, Guyana, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Cayenne, French Guiana 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

• Deep Blue One (2024) — Deep Blue One is a regional submarine cable connecting 4 countries — French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname — with 5 landing points including Cayenne, French Guiana, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, Georgetown, Guyana, Paramaribo, Suriname and others. Read more →
• EllaLink (2021) — On June 1, 2021, a signal left Sines, Portugal — a quiet fishing port on the Alentejo coast — and arrived in Fortaleza, Brazil, sixty-two milliseconds later. For the first time in the history of the internet, a European packet reached South America without touching North American soil. Read more →

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