Glen Lyon, United Kingdom

Glen Lyon, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 60.3331°, -4.3334°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Glen Lyon is a glen in the Perth and Kinross region of Scotland. It is the longest enclosed glen in Scotland and runs for 34 miles from Loch Lyon in the west to the village of Fortingall in the east. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Glen Lyon, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Faroe Islands, United Kingdom. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Glen Lyon, United Kingdom 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

• SHEFA-2 (2008) — SHEFA-2 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United Kingdom and Faroe Islands. Landing at Ayre of Cara, Banff, BP Clair Ridge, Glen Lyon, Maywick, and 2 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 →

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