Bude, United Kingdom

Bude, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 50.8281°, -4.5444°). It serves 8 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Bude is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet. It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Bude, United Kingdom

Cables landing at Bude, United Kingdom are operated by 26 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Altice Portugal, BT, Bayobab, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, Colt, Djibouti Telecom, EXA Infrastructure, and 16 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Bude, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 39 countries through 8 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France and 31 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Bude, United Kingdom in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a 45,000-kilometre submarine cable system that encircles the African continent and extends into the Middle East and Europe. At the time of its completion in 2024, it became the longest submarine cable ever built — by a margin of several thousand kilometres — and it remains the largest single system by landing count, with 46 landings across 33 countries. Read more →
• Amitie (2023) — Amitie is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United Kingdom, France, United States. Its 3 landing points at Bude, Le Porge, Lynn bridge the networks of Europe, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. The transatlantic corridor has been connected by submarine cables since 1858, when the first telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. Read more →
• Grace Hopper (2022) — Grace Hopper is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United States, Spain, United Kingdom. Its 3 landing points at Bellport, Bilbao, Bude bridge the networks of North America, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Europe India Gateway (EIG) (2011) — Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a 15,000 km submarine cable that connects twelve countries on three continents — the United Kingdom and Portugal at the European end, then Spain, France, Gibraltar, Monaco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and finally Mumbai, India. Ready for service in 2011, EIG has been in the ground for over a decade. Read more →
• Glo-1 (2010) — Glo-1 is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Ghana, United Kingdom, Nigeria. Its 3 landing points at Accra, Bude, Lagos bridge the networks of West Africa, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Apollo (2003) — Apollo is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United Kingdom, France, United States. Its 4 landing points at Bude, Lannion, Manasquan, Shirley bridge the networks of Europe, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Pan European Crossing (UK-Ireland) (2000) — Pan European Crossing (UK-Ireland) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Ireland and United Kingdom. Landing at Ballinesker, Ballygrangans, Bude, Whitesands Bay, 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 →
• Yellow (2000) — Yellow is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United States and United Kingdom. Landing at Bellport, Bude, 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.