Point Salines, Grenada

Point Salines, Grenada is a submarine cable landing point in Grenada (coordinates 12.0088°, -61.7906°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Grenada's international connectivity infrastructure.

Maurice Bishop International Airport, formerly known as Point Salines Airport, is an international airport located in the parish of St. George's. The town of St. George's is about 5 mi (8.0 km) north of the airport and is the capital of the island nation of Grenada. The airport is located on Point Salines, the most southwestern point of the island. It is named after former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (1944–1983), who championed the construction project in 1979. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Point Salines, Grenada

Cables landing at Point Salines, Grenada are operated by 7 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Claro Dominicana (Codetel), Digicel, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T), Liberty Networks, Orange, Verizon. 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 Point Salines, Grenada, international traffic can reach 17 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Barthélemy and 9 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Point Salines, Grenada in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Southern Caribbean Fiber (2006) — Southern Caribbean Fiber is a regional submarine cable connecting 15 countries — Guadeloupe, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago and others — with 16 landing points including Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe, Baillif, Guadeloupe, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Bunkum Bay, Montserrat and others. Read more →
• Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) (1995) — Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) is a regional submarine cable connecting 13 countries — Barbados, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and others — with 13 landing points including Bridgetown, Barbados, Castries, Saint Lucia, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, Frigate Bay, Saint Kitts and Nevis and others. Read more →

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