Boca Raton, FL, United States

Boca Raton, FL, United States is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in the United States. 8 international cable systems come ashore here, and together they reach 19 other countries across the Caribbean and Central America and South America.

Why cable lands at Boca Raton

Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Its 8 systems give Boca Raton direct international reach to Bahamas, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba and St. Barthélemy and beyond (19 countries in all), the role that justified building international cable here rather than routing through an inland neighbour.

Where its cables reach

• Bahamas Internet Cable System (BICS), CELIA, Colombia-Florida Express (CFX-1), GlobeNet, South America-1 (SAm-1) and TIKAL-AMX3 connect it to the Caribbean and Central America (including Bahamas, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Curaçao, Martinique).
• Colombia-Florida Express (CFX-1), GlobeNet, Monet and South America-1 (SAm-1) connect it to South America (including Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile).

The systems in detail

The roster spans 27 years of build-out, from GlobeNet (2000) to CELIA (2027). Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Bahamas Internet Cable System (BICS) (1,100 km and in service since 2001), CELIA (3,700 km and in service since 2027), Colombia-Florida Express (CFX-1) (2,438 km and in service since 2008), Confluence-1 (2,571 km and in service since 2026), GlobeNet (23,500 km and in service since 2000), Monet (10,556 km and in service since 2017), South America-1 (SAm-1) (25,000 km and in service since 2001) and TIKAL-AMX3 (1,935 km and in service since 2026). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.

What the concentration means for resilience

With 8 independent systems, the United States has real redundancy through this point: no single cable cut isolates it from the destinations they share. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.

What our monitoring has recorded

GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 122 route anomalies across 68 cable systems worldwide. Two have touched this location's own cables: a 120% round-trip latency spike on Colombia-Florida Express (CFX-1) (2026-06-30, recovered by 2026-06-30) and a 118% round-trip latency spike on GlobeNet (2026-03-12, recovered by 2026-03-12). These were latency events on the systems' wider routes, not outages at the landing itself, and they cleared on their own. This record grows as we detect more, which is the difference between a directory entry and a monitored asset.

Latency, measured

From the GeoCables probe network, best-case round-trip time to the United States endpoints runs about 2 ms from Minsk, about 146 ms from Minsk and about 165 ms from Tbilisi. These are paths into the United States from our own vantage points, not a global average, and they shift as operators re-route.

Who depends on it

The largest access networks in the United States sit behind this coastal capacity: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (17.5% of users), AT&T Enterprises, LLC (12% of users), Verizon Business (7.5% of users) and T-Mobile USA, Inc. (7.3% of users). See the full national picture for United States.

In short, Boca Raton, FL, United States carries international traffic for the United States across 8 independent cable systems reaching 19 countries on 2 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.