Landing Point · NL Netherlands
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Scylla | Active |
| Ulysses 2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-19 through 2026-05-11 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #33205 | RIPE Atlas | 36 | 29.0 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 7 | 63.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 7 | 110.6 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 7 | 66.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 6 | 78.2 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 82.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 52.1 ms |
Ijmuiden is a port town in the Dutch province of North Holland, situated at the mouth of the North Sea Canal where it meets the North Sea. This coastal position makes it a natural site for submarine cable infrastructure, and two submarine cables land here, connecting the Netherlands directly to the United Kingdom across the southern North Sea. The cables landing at Ijmuiden establish a bilateral corridor between the two countries, supporting cross-channel connectivity in one of the most active maritime regions in the world.
The two cables serving Ijmuiden are Scylla and Ulysses 2, both of which link the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. This pairing of cables — one from 1997 and one with a ready-for-service date of 2021 — means Ijmuiden hosts both an established legacy connection and a more recently developed route on the same bilateral corridor.
Scylla is a submarine cable spanning 204 km, with a ready-for-service date of 2021. It connects Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to a landing point in the United Kingdom, forming a relatively short but direct North Sea crossing. The cable carries a draft status in its deployment classification.
Ulysses 2 is a submarine cable with a ready-for-service date of 1997, also connecting Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. As one of the Netherlands' earliest submarine cable deployments — matching the country's first recorded RFS year — Ulysses 2 represents the foundational layer of Ijmuiden's international cable connectivity. Like Scylla, it carries a draft status.
Within the Netherlands, submarine cables reach shore at eight landing points, with Ijmuiden hosting two of the country's eleven cables. This places Ijmuiden in the upper half of Dutch landing points by cable count, on par with Domburg and The Hague, which also each host two cables, and ahead of Beverwijk and Callantsoog, which each host one. Eemshaven and Zandvoort lead the national picture with three cables apiece.
Ijmuiden functions as a focused two-cable landing point rather than a broad multi-corridor hub. Both of its cables, Scylla and Ulysses 2, serve the same bilateral route between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, meaning Ijmuiden contributes a dedicated, dual-cable connection along a single national pair. The presence of both a 1997-era cable and a 2021 cable on this same route reflects the sustained value of this particular North Sea crossing over more than two decades.
Within the Dutch submarine cable graph, Ijmuiden's role is precisely defined: it anchors the Netherlands–United Kingdom corridor on the North Holland coastline, complementing the broader spread of international connectivity distributed across the country's other landing points from Eemshaven in the north to Domburg in the south. Its position alongside the North Sea Canal mouth at a major port town reinforces its standing as a durable terminus in the Netherlands' submarine cable infrastructure.
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