Northport, NY, United States

Northport, NY: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Northport is a village on the North Shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Situated along the Atlantic-facing coastline of Long Island, Northport serves as a submarine cable landing point connecting the United States to Europe. One submarine cable lands here, linking Northport to landing points in France and the United Kingdom and forming part of a transatlantic corridor.

The single cable landing at Northport is FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1), a system that places this Long Island village within the broader transatlantic network infrastructure of the United States. While modest in cable count, Northport represents one of 160 submarine cable landing points across the United States, participating in the country's extensive international connectivity.

Cables Landing at Northport, NY

FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1) is a transatlantic submarine cable system with a total length of 14,500 km, reaching its ready-for-service (RFS) date in 2001. The cable connects the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, with Northport, NY serving as one of the U.S. landing points on the system. FA-1 spans the North Atlantic, linking North American and Western European networks across one of the world's most significant intercontinental cable corridors.

Regional Context

Within the United States, Northport, NY hosts a single submarine cable, placing it among the smaller landing points in a country served by 113 submarine cables across 160 locations. Larger U.S. landing points such as Boca Raton, FL and San Juan, PR each host eight cables, while Hermosa Beach, CA, Kapolei, HI, and Myrtle Beach, SC each host five. Northport ranks in the top 69% of U.S. landing points by cable count, reflecting its role as a specialized terminus rather than a major multi-cable hub.

Network Role

Northport, NY functions as a single-cable terminus on the transatlantic route, anchoring the U.S. end of the FLAG Atlantic-1 system and providing a direct North Atlantic link to France and the United Kingdom. The FA-1 cable, at 14,500 km, is substantially longer than the U.S. average cable length of 4,957 km, underscoring the intercontinental nature of the connection this landing point supports.

As one node in the dense graph of U.S. submarine cable infrastructure, Northport demonstrates that transatlantic connectivity is distributed across multiple landing points along the U.S. East Coast and beyond, rather than concentrated at a single location. Its presence in the submarine cable map reflects the geographic spread of international cable landings across the United States.