Katthammarsvik, Sweden

Katthammarsvik, Sweden is a submarine cable landing point in Sweden (coordinates 57.4310°, 18.8453°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Sweden's international connectivity infrastructure.

Katthammarsvik is a harbour settlement in Östergarn socken on the island of Gotland, Sweden. As of 2005, it was in statistical terms defined as a småort and has formerly, very briefly, held the status of a tätort (locality). The BCS East-West Interlink undersea cable carrying internet traffic comes ashore at Katthammarsvik. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Katthammarsvik, Sweden, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Lithuania. 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 Katthammarsvik, Sweden 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

• BCS East-West Interlink (1997) — BCS East-West Interlink is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Sweden and Lithuania. Landing at Katthammarsvik, Sventoji, 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.