Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Cowes-Fawley 2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-17 through 2026-05-17 — 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 | 3 | 41.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 65.2 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 72.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 99.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 47.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 82.1 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 41.7 ms |
Gurnard is a coastal location in the United Kingdom that serves as a submarine cable landing point. A single submarine cable makes landfall here, connecting Gurnard into the broader domestic submarine cable network of the United Kingdom. The cable landing at Gurnard operates entirely within the United Kingdom, enabling an intra-national connectivity corridor rather than an intercontinental or cross-border one.
The United Kingdom hosts 66 submarine cables across 125 landing points, making it one of the most densely served submarine cable nations in the world. Gurnard, with its single cable, ranks within the top 88 percent of United Kingdom landing points by cable count, reflecting the wide distribution of cable infrastructure across many smaller and regional sites alongside the country's larger hubs.
Cowes-Fawley 2 is the submarine cable landing at Gurnard. This cable reached ready-for-service status in 2018, listed under draft status. As its name suggests, Cowes-Fawley 2 connects locations entirely within the United Kingdom, linking Gurnard into a domestic submarine cable route between two points on or near the English coast. No cable length or capacity figures are available for this system.
Within the United Kingdom, Gurnard is one of the smaller cable landing points when measured by cable count. Larger hubs such as Bude, which hosts eight cables, and Lowestoft, which hosts six, handle considerably more international and domestic traffic. Blackpool, Broadstairs, Porthcurno, and Southport each serve three to four cables, placing Gurnard toward the lower end of the scale among notable United Kingdom landing points. Gurnard's role is therefore a specialised, localised one rather than that of a major aggregation point.
Gurnard functions as a single-cable terminus, hosting one domestic submarine cable that connects points within the United Kingdom. The Cowes-Fawley 2 system places Gurnard on an intra-national route, supporting connectivity between specific coastal locations rather than bridging the United Kingdom to other countries. This distinguishes Gurnard from the higher-profile international cable landing points distributed along the British coast.
In the broader United Kingdom submarine cable graph, Gurnard represents the category of focused, domestic landing points that collectively ensure coastal and island communities maintain submarine cable connectivity alongside the country's internationally facing cable hubs. Its presence reflects the depth and geographic spread of the United Kingdom's overall submarine cable infrastructure.
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