Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States

Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 70.2940°, -148.4568°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

Prudhoe Bay is a town located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 1,310 people, down from 2,174 residents in the 2010 census, and up from 5 residents in 2000; however, at any given time, several thousand transient workers support the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. The airport, lodging and general store are located in Deadhorse, and the rigs and processing facilities are located on scattered gravel pads laid atop the tundra. It is only during winter that the surface is hard enough to support heavy equipment, and new construction happens at that time. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include United States. 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 Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States 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

• Quintillion Subsea Cable Network (2017) — Quintillion Subsea Cable Network is a domestic submarine cable network within United States, connecting 6 coastal and island locations including Kotzebue, Nome, Point Hope, Prudhoe Bay, Utqiaġvik, and 1 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

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