Landing Point · US United States
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Apollo | Active |
| Gemini Bermuda | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-20 through 2026-07-13 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 212.0 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 3 | 271.9 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 3 | 229.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 132.8 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 2 | 134.8 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 2 | 141.5 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 155.7 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 209.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 173.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 158.5 ms |
Manasquan is a borough on the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, New Jersey, situated along the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its coastal position makes it a natural point of entry for transatlantic and regional submarine cable systems. Two submarine cables come ashore at Manasquan, connecting the borough to destinations in Europe and the North Atlantic.
The two cables landing here represent distinct corridors. The Apollo cable extends Manasquan's connectivity across the Atlantic to France and the United Kingdom, placing this New Jersey shore community on a transatlantic route. The Gemini Bermuda cable connects Manasquan to Bermuda, forming a shorter regional link within the western North Atlantic. Together, these two systems give Manasquan reach across both intercontinental and regional submarine cable corridors.
Apollo is a transatlantic submarine cable spanning approximately 13,000 km, which entered service in 2003. In addition to its landing at Manasquan, New Jersey, Apollo connects to France and the United Kingdom, as well as additional landing points within the United States. The cable forms a key segment of the transatlantic route linking North America with Western Europe.
Gemini Bermuda is a regional submarine cable with a length of approximately 1,501 km, which entered service in 2007. It connects Manasquan, New Jersey, to Bermuda, providing a dedicated link between the United States mainland and the island territory in the western North Atlantic. At roughly one-tenth the length of Apollo, Gemini Bermuda serves a fundamentally different, shorter-range corridor.
Within the United States, Manasquan hosts 2 submarine cables, placing it among the mid-range landing points in a national network that spans 113 cables across 160 landing points. Larger hubs such as Boca Raton, FL, and San Juan, PR, each accommodate 8 cables, while Hermosa Beach, CA, Kapolei, HI, and Myrtle Beach, SC, each host 5. Manasquan is a more specialized landing point by comparison, serving a defined set of transatlantic and North Atlantic connections rather than aggregating a broad portfolio of cable systems.
Manasquan functions as a two-cable landing point, serving both a long-haul transatlantic route through Apollo and a shorter regional route to Bermuda through Gemini Bermuda. This pairing means the borough handles traffic flows of quite different scales and distances, connecting the United States simultaneously to major European nations and to a proximate island territory. It is not a high-concentration hub in the manner of the largest United States landing points, but it occupies a specific and well-defined position at the intersection of the transatlantic and western North Atlantic cable segments.
Within the broader United States submarine cable graph, Manasquan represents one of many Atlantic-facing landing points distributed along the East Coast, contributing to the geographic diversity of transatlantic cable infrastructure across the country.
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