Porsgrunn, Norway

Porsgrunn, Norway is a submarine cable landing point in Norway (coordinates 59.1386°, 9.6555°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Norway's international connectivity infrastructure.

is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn. Some other notable settlements in Porsgrunn include the town of Brevik and the villages of Langangen and Heistad. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Porsgrunn, Norway, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Norway, Sweden. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Porsgrunn, Norway in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• N0r5ke Viking 2 (2028) — N0r5ke Viking 2 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Norway and Sweden. Landing at Bergen, Capri Strand, Kristiansand, Lagunen, Oslo, and 2 more, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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