Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| R100 North | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-18 through 2026-07-10 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 5 | 40.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 101.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 63.2 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 73.5 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 255.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 159.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 81.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 47.1 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 42.3 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 48.6 ms |
Quoyness is a submarine cable landing point located in the United Kingdom, situated on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. As an island location, Quoyness relies on submarine cable infrastructure to maintain connectivity with the broader United Kingdom telecommunications network. One submarine cable currently lands at Quoyness, connecting this Orcadian island community to the mainland.
The single cable landing here, R100 North, operates entirely within United Kingdom waters, forming a domestic corridor that links Sanday and the Orkney island chain to the rest of the country. This intra-national connectivity reflects the particular infrastructure needs of remote Scottish island communities, where submarine cables serve as the primary means of delivering high-capacity broadband to residents and businesses.
R100 North is a submarine cable measuring 224 kilometres in length, with a ready-for-service date of 2023 (draft status). The cable connects landing points exclusively within the United Kingdom, making it a domestic intra-national link rather than an international or intercontinental route. At 224 kilometres, R100 North is considerably shorter than the United Kingdom average cable length of 1,615 kilometres, reflecting its focused regional purpose of serving the Scottish islands.
Within the United Kingdom's submarine cable network, Quoyness is one of 125 landing points spread across the country, which together host 66 submarine cables in total. With a single cable, Quoyness ranks in the broader tier of smaller landing points nationally, compared to major hubs such as Bude (8 cables), Lowestoft (6 cables), and Blackpool (4 cables). Its role is distinct from these larger sites, serving a specific island community rather than functioning as a multi-cable international exchange point.
Quoyness functions as a single-cable terminus, terminating the R100 North domestic submarine cable and providing Sanday in Orkney with a direct subsea link to the United Kingdom mainland network. Its role is specifically oriented toward island connectivity within Scotland, enabling broadband access across a geographic gap that terrestrial infrastructure cannot bridge. Unlike multi-cable hubs elsewhere in the United Kingdom, Quoyness does not serve as an interchange between multiple international or intercontinental routes.
In the broader context of the United Kingdom submarine cable graph, Quoyness represents the category of geographically specialised landing points that extend national network coverage to remote island communities, demonstrating that submarine cable infrastructure in the United Kingdom serves not only international traffic but also essential domestic connectivity requirements.
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