Landing Point · AU Australia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) | Active |
| Telstra Endeavour | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-18 through 2026-06-02 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #14843 | RIPE Atlas | 43 | 157.0 ms |
| #1001816 | RIPE Atlas | 13 | 189.8 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 286.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 296.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 292.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 299.2 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 268.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 303.4 ms |
Paddington is a locality in New South Wales, Australia, and serves as a submarine cable landing point on the Australian eastern seaboard. Two submarine cables land at Paddington, connecting Australia to destinations across the Pacific, including Japan, Guam, and the United States. Together, these cables position Paddington as a node in the trans-Pacific submarine cable corridor.
The two cables landing here span different generations of submarine infrastructure, with ready-for-service dates in 2001 and 2008 respectively. Their combined reach extends across the Pacific Ocean, linking the Australian eastern coast to major hubs in Northeast Asia and North America. This makes Paddington a landing point that participates in both the Australia–Japan and Australia–United States connectivity corridors.
The Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) is a 12,700 km submarine cable that entered service in 2001. It connects Australia, Guam, and Japan, forming a trans-Pacific route that links the Australian eastern coast to Northeast Asia via Guam as an intermediate point. With a length exceeding 12,000 km, it is one of the longer cables landing at this location.
The Telstra Endeavour is a 9,125 km submarine cable that entered service in 2008. It connects Australia to the United States, providing a direct trans-Pacific link between the two countries. At over 9,000 km in length, it extends across a significant span of the Pacific Ocean and represents a later generation of submarine infrastructure compared to the AJC.
Within Australia's submarine cable landscape, Paddington sits alongside other New South Wales landing points including Sydney, which hosts ten cables and stands as the dominant landing hub in the state, Alexandria with three cables, and Brookvale with two cables. Nationally, Paddington ranks in the top 81% of Australia's 27 landing points by cable count, placing it among the more moderately connected locations in a country served by 31 submarine cables across those sites.
Paddington functions as a two-cable landing point, connecting Australia to three distinct countries — Japan, Guam, and the United States — across the Pacific Ocean. The Australia-Japan Cable provides a route into Northeast Asia with Guam as an intermediate landing, while Telstra Endeavour offers a direct link to North America. Together, these cables mean Paddington participates in two of the most significant trans-Pacific routes serving Australia's eastern coast.
Rather than a single-cable terminus, Paddington operates as a modest multi-cable landing point with a geographically coherent focus on Pacific connectivity. Within the broader Australian submarine cable graph, where Sydney dominates with ten cables, Paddington's pair of long-haul trans-Pacific cables represents a meaningful concentration of international reach for a landing point of its scale.
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