Landing Point · BR Brazil
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Brazilian Festoon | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-05 through 2026-05-29 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 225.7 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 256.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 274.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 253.8 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 15.9 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 311.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 357.4 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 358.8 ms |
Natal is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, situated in the Northeast Region of Brazil. As a coastal city positioned along Brazil's northeastern shoreline, Natal serves as a landing point for submarine cable infrastructure connecting it to the broader Brazilian coastal network. One submarine cable currently lands at Natal, linking it to other points along the Brazilian coast.
The single cable landing here, the Brazilian Festoon, is a domestic coastal cable that connects multiple Brazilian landing points to one another. This configuration places Natal within a regional, intra-national submarine cable corridor rather than an intercontinental one, supporting connectivity between Brazilian coastal cities along the country's extensive Atlantic seaboard.
Brazilian Festoon is a submarine cable measuring 2,552 kilometers in length, with a ready-for-service date of 1996 and currently carrying draft status. The cable connects landing points exclusively within Brazil, running along the Brazilian coastline and linking Natal to other Brazilian cities. As a domestic cable, it forms part of the coastal infrastructure that ties together the country's northeastern and broader coastal regions through submarine rather than terrestrial routing.
Among Brazil's submarine cable landing points, Natal hosts a single cable, placing it toward the lower end of the national distribution. By comparison, Fortaleza — also in the Northeast Region — hosts ten cables, and Rio de Janeiro hosts eight, reflecting the concentration of international and high-capacity routes at those major hubs. Natal's participation in the Brazilian Festoon nonetheless connects it to the same coastal cable system that passes through several of these larger landing points.
Natal functions as a single-cable terminus on the Brazilian Festoon, a domestic coastal system that runs along Brazil's Atlantic shoreline. This role positions Natal as a participant in intra-national submarine connectivity, enabling data routing between Brazilian coastal cities through a marine cable path. The city does not currently serve as a hub for international submarine traffic, in contrast to larger Brazilian landing points that host multiple cables spanning the Atlantic and beyond.
Within the Brazilian submarine cable graph, Natal represents one of 64 landing points distributed across the country's coastline, contributing to the geographic spread of domestic cable infrastructure along a coastline that stretches thousands of kilometers. Its inclusion in the Brazilian Festoon ensures that the northeastern coast retains a presence in the submarine cable network established as far back as 1996, the same year that Brazil's first submarine cable entered service.
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