Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Q&E North | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-23 through 2026-06-02 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #11576 | RIPE Atlas | 2 | 37.3 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 41.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 99.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 64.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 70.2 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 47.6 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 77.5 ms |
Joss Bay is a coastal landing point in the United Kingdom that serves as a terminus for submarine cable infrastructure connecting Britain to continental Europe. Situated on the eastern coast of England, its position makes it well suited to short cross-Channel connectivity, particularly toward Belgium. One submarine cable currently lands at Joss Bay, linking the United Kingdom directly to Belgium across the southern North Sea corridor.
The single cable landing at Joss Bay, known as Q&E North, represents a relatively short regional connection at 112 kilometres, oriented toward facilitating data transit between the United Kingdom and Belgium. With a scheduled ready-for-service date of 2025, Joss Bay is among the newer additions to the United Kingdom's submarine cable geography, reflecting continued investment in cross-Channel capacity.
Q&E North is a 112-kilometre submarine cable with a ready-for-service date of 2025, currently listed as draft status. The cable connects the United Kingdom and Belgium, forming a direct link across the southern North Sea. Joss Bay serves as the United Kingdom landing point for this system.
Within the United Kingdom, Joss Bay hosts one submarine cable, placing it among the more modestly served of the country's 125 landing points. Larger hubs such as Bude, with eight cables, and Lowestoft, with six, handle considerably greater volumes of cable diversity. Nearby Broadstairs, also in the southeastern part of England, hosts three cables, making it a more established landing cluster in the same general coastal region.
Joss Bay functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with its connectivity profile defined entirely by the Q&E North system linking the United Kingdom to Belgium. This cross-Channel corridor is one of the most geographically compact international submarine cable routes in the United Kingdom's wider cable network, where the average cable length stands at 1,615 kilometres. The Q&E North route at 112 kilometres is therefore notably shorter than the national average, underscoring its role as a targeted, short-haul connection between two neighbouring European countries.
As the United Kingdom's submarine cable landscape spans 66 cables across 125 landing points, Joss Bay represents one of the country's newer and more specialised entry points into that network. Its addition to the national cable map illustrates how demand for dedicated bilateral links between the United Kingdom and Belgium continues to generate new infrastructure even at locations with limited prior cable history, broadening the overall resilience and geographic spread of the country's submarine cable footprint.
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