Landing Point · JM Jamaica
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Jamaica Submarine Cable Festoon System (JSCFS) | Planned |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-03 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 | 12 | 1.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 7 | 25.7 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 13.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 6 | 18.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 6 | 0.5 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 5 | 0.7 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 5 | 1.0 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 5 | 0.9 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 4 | 7.9 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 1.4 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 0.5 ms |
Negril is a beach resort town situated at the far western tip of Jamaica, spanning Westmoreland and Hanover parishes approximately 80.8 kilometres southwest of Montego Bay. As a coastal settlement on Jamaica's western extremity, Negril serves as a landing point for submarine cable infrastructure connecting it to the broader Jamaican cable network. One submarine cable lands at Negril, the Jamaica Submarine Cable Festoon System (JSCFS), which links multiple points along the Jamaican coastline in a domestic inter-island festoon arrangement.
The single cable landing at Negril connects the town exclusively within Jamaica, making this a domestic rather than an international terminus. The JSCFS, by its nature as a festoon system, is designed to serve intra-national connectivity, routing cable infrastructure along the Jamaican coast to serve communities at multiple landing points across the island.
The Jamaica Submarine Cable Festoon System (JSCFS) is the sole submarine cable landing at Negril. This cable connects landing points exclusively within Jamaica, functioning as a domestic festoon system that runs along the Jamaican coastline. No length, ready-for-service year, or capacity data is available for this cable in the current record. Its other endpoints are located elsewhere in Jamaica, placing Negril as one node within this nationally oriented submarine cable route.
Among Jamaica's submarine cable landing points, Negril is one of the country's smaller nodes, sharing a single-cable status with Black River, Copa Club, and Harbour View. By comparison, Bull Bay and Montego Bay each host three cables, and Ocho Rios hosts two, making those locations more prominent multi-cable hubs on the island. Negril's position at Jamaica's western extremity gives it a geographically distinct role in the domestic festoon network.
Negril functions as a single-cable terminus within Jamaica's domestic submarine cable infrastructure. Its connection through the Jamaica Submarine Cable Festoon System links it to other Jamaican landing points along the coast, contributing to the intra-national distribution of submarine cable connectivity across the island. As a festoon endpoint, Negril's role is to extend the reach of this domestic system to Jamaica's western coastline, a region otherwise distant from the more concentrated cable hubs at Montego Bay and Bull Bay.
Within the Jamaican submarine cable graph, Negril represents the westernmost point of cable-served connectivity, ensuring that the festoon system reaches the full geographic breadth of the island rather than remaining concentrated in the north and east.
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