Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Northern Mariana Islands (coordinates 15.1777°, 145.7509°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Northern Mariana Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

Saipan is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According to 2020 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the population of Saipan was 43,385. Its people have been United States citizens since the 1980s. Saipan is one of the main homes of the Chamorro and the Carolinian, the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Saipan, 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 Saipan, 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.