Landing Point · BR Brazil
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Norte Conectado (Infovia 02) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-16 through 2026-06-28 - live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 6 | 282.8 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 310.2 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 4 | 15.7 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 4 | 357.9 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 4 | 356.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 284.2 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 283.5 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 292.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 263.7 ms |
Santo Antônio do Içá is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, located in northwestern Brazil near the Colombian border. Despite its inland position along the Amazon river system, the town is designated as a landing point for a submarine cable connection that links multiple points within Brazil. One submarine cable lands at Santo Antônio do Içá, connecting this remote Amazonian community to broader national digital infrastructure.
The cable serving Santo Antônio do Içá, Norte Conectado (Infovia 02), operates entirely within Brazil, establishing an intra-national corridor rather than an intercontinental one. This makes Santo Antônio do Içá part of an effort to extend connectivity into regions of Brazil that have historically been underserved by coastal cable infrastructure. The cable's route through the Amazonas region reflects a focus on domestic digital integration across one of the world's largest and most geographically challenging territories.
Norte Conectado (Infovia 02) is a 1,796 km submarine cable with a scheduled ready-for-service date of 2026, currently in draft status. All endpoints on this cable are located within Brazil, making it a fully domestic submarine cable system. At 1,796 km, it is considerably shorter than the Brazilian average cable length of 4,840 km, reflecting its role as a regional connector rather than a long-haul transoceanic link.
Among Brazil's 64 submarine cable landing points, Santo Antônio do Içá hosts a single cable, placing it among the smaller landing points in the country by cable count. Major Brazilian hubs such as Fortaleza (10 cables), Rio de Janeiro (8 cables), and Santos (5 cables) handle far greater volumes of cable traffic, primarily through international connections. Santo Antônio do Içá is more comparable in scale to landing points like Autazes, which hosts two cables, both of which also serve the domestic Amazonian corridor.
Santo Antônio do Içá functions as a single-cable terminus within Brazil's submarine cable graph. Its sole cable, Norte Conectado (Infovia 02), does not connect Brazil to any foreign country; instead, it extends submarine cable infrastructure into the interior of the Amazonas state, reaching a municipality with a population of approximately 21,243 people spread across a vast area of 12,307 km². This positions Santo Antônio do Içá as a domestic endpoint rather than an international gateway.
The significance of this landing point within the regional submarine cable graph lies in the geographic reach it represents. By bringing submarine cable infrastructure to a remote Amazonian municipality near the Colombian border — far from Brazil's cable-dense Atlantic coastline — Norte Conectado (Infovia 02) extends the national submarine cable network into territory that sits well beyond the reach of Brazil's established coastal landing hubs.
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