El Segundo, CA, United States

El Segundo, CA, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 33.9199°, -118.4160°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located on Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and is part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. The population was 17,272 as of the 2020 census, a 3.7% increase from 16,654 in the 2010 census. A significant center of the oil and aerospace industries in Southern California, roughly three quarters of the city's land is dedicated exclusively to industrial and commercial uses, including a Chevron oil refinery which takes up more than a quarter of the city. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at El Segundo, CA, United States

Cables landing at El Segundo, CA, United States are operated by 2 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Google, Meta. 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 El Segundo, CA, United States, international traffic can reach 4 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Chile, Panama, Philippines, Taiwan.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving El Segundo, CA, United States 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

• Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) (2022) — The Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) is an 11,806 km trans-Pacific submarine cable lit for service in 2022. It connects El Segundo on the southern California coast with Toucheng in Taiwan and Baler in the Philippines, operated by a consortium that includes Google and Meta alongside regional Asian partners. Read more →
• Curie (2020) — Curie is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Panama, United States, Chile. Its 3 landing points at Balboa, El Segundo, Valparaíso bridge the networks of North America, South America, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →

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