Myrtle Beach, SC, United States

Myrtle Beach, SC, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 33.6936°, -78.8827°). It serves 5 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

Myrtle Beach is a resort city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. It is located in the center of a long and continuous 60-mile (97 km) stretch of beach known as the "Grand Strand” in the northeastern part of the state, on the East Coast of the United States. Its year-round population was 35,682 as of the 2020 census, making it the 13th-most populous city in South Carolina. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Myrtle Beach, SC, United States

Cables landing at Myrtle Beach, SC, United States are operated by 3 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Confluence Networks, Google, Meta. 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 Myrtle Beach, SC, United States, international traffic can reach 11 countries through 5 cable systems. Destinations include Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, India, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa and 3 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 1 monitoring event on cables serving Myrtle Beach, SC, United States in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Anjana (2026) — Anjana is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United States and Spain. Landing at Myrtle Beach, Santander, 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 →
• Confluence-1 (2026) — Confluence-1 is a domestic submarine cable network within United States, connecting 5 coastal and island locations including Boca Raton, Jacksonville, Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Wall Township. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Firmina (2026) — Firmina is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Argentina, United States, Brazil, Uruguay. Its 4 landing points at Las Toninas, Myrtle Beach, Praia Grande, Punta del Este bridge the networks of South America, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Nuvem (2026) — Nuvem is the newest entry on our monitoring list. The 7,194 km submarine cable was designed by Google to cross the North Atlantic, and it does something uncommon among recent transatlantic systems: it lands in four places, not two. Read more →
• Project Waterworth — Project Waterworth is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Southern Africa and South Asia and Oceania, with 9 landing points across 6 countries including Amanzimtoti, South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, Chennai, India, Darwin, NT, Australia and others. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.