Landing Point · US United States
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Amitie | Active |
| EXA North and South | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-10 through 2026-07-18 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #30294 | control probe | 90 | 86.6 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 7 | 208.6 ms |
| #12142 | control probe | 7 | 100.0 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 7 | 111.7 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 6 | 106.9 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 124.9 ms |
Lynn, Massachusetts, is a city on the Atlantic Ocean coastline in Essex County, situated within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. Its position on the northeastern seaboard of the United States makes it a natural point of entry for transatlantic submarine cable systems. Two submarine cables land at Lynn, connecting the city to destinations in Western Europe and Canada and positioning it as a transatlantic communications node on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
The two cables landing here serve distinct transatlantic corridors. Together they link Lynn to the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, and Canada, spanning both long-established and recently commissioned infrastructure. This combination of an early-2000s system and a 2023 system reflects Lynn's continued relevance to North American transatlantic cable routing over more than two decades.
EXA North and South is a submarine cable system measuring 12,200 kilometres in length, with a ready-for-service date of 2001. In addition to Lynn, the cable lands in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, forming a transatlantic link between North America and the British Isles. Its length places it among the longer cable systems in the transatlantic corridor.
Amitie is a submarine cable system measuring 6,792 kilometres in length, with a ready-for-service date of 2023. Beyond Lynn, the cable connects to France and the United Kingdom, providing a transatlantic route between the northeastern United States and Western Europe. As a recently commissioned system, Amitie represents the most current addition to Lynn's submarine cable infrastructure.
Within the United States, Lynn hosts two submarine cables, placing it among the broader landscape of 160 American landing points that collectively serve 113 cable systems. Compared to larger multi-cable hubs such as Boca Raton, FL and San Juan, PR, each with eight cables, or Hermosa Beach, CA and Myrtle Beach, SC, each with five, Lynn is a more focused landing point by volume. Its two cables nonetheless connect it directly to three separate European countries, which is a notable geographic reach for a two-cable terminus.
Lynn functions as a transatlantic landing point, with both of its cables oriented toward Western Europe and, in the case of EXA North and South, also toward Canada. The two systems together span four additional countries — Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France — giving Lynn a connectivity footprint that extends across the North Atlantic. As a two-cable landing point rather than a multi-cable hub, Lynn serves a defined and consistent transatlantic corridor rather than a diversified set of routes.
The coexistence of a cable from 2001 and one from 2023 means that Lynn supports both legacy and current-generation transatlantic infrastructure. In the broader United States submarine cable graph, where 113 cables arrive across 160 landing points, Lynn's role is that of a specialized transatlantic terminus on the northeastern Atlantic coast, complementing the larger and more diverse cable hubs located elsewhere along the American shoreline.
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