Landing Point · MX Mexico
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago Submarine Cable System (LCMSSCS) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-16 through 2026-06-23 - live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 158.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 228.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 189.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 183.8 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 206.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 183.0 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 2 | 52.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 174.7 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 274.7 ms |
Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas is a coastal city in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, situated on the Pacific coast. As a submarine cable landing point, it connects into Mexico's broader network of undersea infrastructure, which spans 12 cables across 14 landing points nationwide. One submarine cable lands at Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, linking it directly to another point along Mexico's Pacific shoreline.
The single cable landing here — the Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago Submarine Cable System (LCMSSCS) — establishes an intra-national corridor along the Mexican Pacific coast. Rather than serving an intercontinental or international route, this connection operates entirely within Mexico, tying Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas to the port city of Manzanillo and providing a domestic undersea pathway between two of the country's Pacific-facing communities.
The Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago Submarine Cable System (LCMSSCS) is a 322-kilometre submarine cable that entered service in 2013. It connects landing points exclusively within Mexico, running between Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas and Manzanillo along the Pacific coast. As a relatively short domestic cable, it represents a regionally focused piece of submarine infrastructure designed to serve connectivity needs within the country's Pacific corridor rather than reaching across international borders.
Within Mexico's submarine cable landscape, Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas hosts one cable, placing it among a group of single-cable landing points that includes Isla de Cozumel, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, La Paz, and Manzanillo. By cable count, it ranks in the lower tier of Mexico's 14 landing points, well behind Cancún, which leads nationally with six cables, and Mazatlán, which hosts two. Nonetheless, Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas holds a distinct position as one terminus of the only domestic intra-Pacific-coast cable connection in Mexico's published submarine cable inventory.
Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its sole submarine connection, the LCMSSCS, enables a domestic undersea link along Mexico's Pacific coast, complementing the broader national network that averages cable lengths of approximately 5,119 kilometres — far greater than the 322-kilometre span of the LCMSSCS. This reflects the cable's inward-facing, regional purpose rather than a long-haul international orientation.
Within Mexico's submarine cable graph, Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas occupies a specialised node: it contributes a short-haul domestic route that connects two Pacific port cities by an undersea path. For the overall resilience and completeness of Mexico's coastal connectivity, the presence of such dedicated domestic links alongside longer international cables at other landing points adds meaningful geographic diversity to the national submarine cable footprint.
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