Guningtou, Taiwan

Guningtou, Taiwan is a submarine cable landing point in Taiwan (coordinates 24.4761°, 118.3071°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Taiwan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Retrocession Day, officially called the Taiwan Retrocession Day and the Anniversary of the Battle of Guningtou in Taiwan and the Commemoration Day of Taiwan's Restoration in mainland China, is a public holiday in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and a memorial day in the People's Republic of China, created in 2025, to commemorate the end of Japanese rule of Taiwan and its transfer to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Guningtou, Taiwan, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include China, Taiwan. 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 Guningtou, Taiwan 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

• Cross-Straits Cable Network (CSCN) (2012) — Cross-Straits Cable Network (CSCN) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking China and Taiwan. Landing at Dadeng Island, Guanyin Mountain, Guningtou, Lake Ci, 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.