Rota, Northern Mariana Islands

Rota, Northern Mariana Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Northern Mariana Islands (coordinates 14.1518°, 145.2125°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Northern Mariana Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

Rota, also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the third southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago. Early Spanish records called it Zarpana; the name Rota may have come from the Andalusian municipality of Rota. It lies approximately 40 nautical miles (74 km) north-northeast of the separately administered United States territory of Guam. Sinapalo village is the largest and most populated, followed by Songsong village. Rota functions as one of the four municipalities of the CNMI. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Guam, Northern Mariana Islands. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

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

About the cables

• Mariana-Guam Cable (1997) — Mariana-Guam Cable is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. Landing at Rota, Saipan, Tanguisson Point, Tinian, 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.