Landing Point · NO Norway
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Norfest | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-14 through 2026-07-07 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 7 | 47.5 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 6 | 71.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 109.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 75.4 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 5 | 40.9 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 226.6 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 271.6 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 58.6 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 14.2 ms |
Drøbak, Norway is a submarine cable landing point in Norway. One international cable system comes ashore here, and together they reach 1 other countries.
Most of the 1 systems here are domestic; the exception reaches Sweden, making Drøbak a stepping stone that carries the region's traffic off Norway's national grid toward the wider network.
Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Norfest (749 km and in service since 2023). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
A single system lands here, so this point is a genuine dependency rather than a redundant one. The exposure is specific: the link to Europe rests on a single cable, with no sibling landing alongside it. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 127 route anomalies across 71 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 71 other systems flagged across our coverage.
The largest access networks in Norway sit behind this coastal capacity: Telenor Norge AS (27.6% of users), Lyse Tele AS (27.1% of users), Telia Norge AS (18.5% of users) and GLOBALCONNECT AS (4.7% of users). See the full national picture for Norway.
This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Moss (23 km away, 1 cable system), Oslo (28 km away, 2 cable systems) and Larvik (74 km away, 2 cable systems). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of Norway really has: if one landing fails or a cable needs maintenance, traffic can often be carried through a neighbour.
In short, Drøbak, Norway carries international traffic for Norway across 1 independent cable system reaching 1 country on 1 continent, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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