Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| R100 North | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-12 through 2026-07-17 - 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 | 3 | 38.9 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 251.0 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 173.5 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 46.3 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 2 | 42.8 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 2 | 45.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 98.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 67.2 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 69.9 ms |
Scoor is a landing point located in the United Kingdom, situated on the southwestern peninsula of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. As a coastal location on one of Scotland's Inner Hebrides islands, it forms part of the United Kingdom's broader submarine cable infrastructure, which spans 125 landing points across the country. One submarine cable currently lands at Scoor, connecting it to the domestic cable network.
The single cable landing at Scoor is the R100 North, a relatively short domestic cable that links locations entirely within the United Kingdom. Given that both endpoints of this cable are within the same country, the corridor it enables is an intra-national one, most likely serving connectivity between island or remote communities and the Scottish mainland. This positions Scoor as a domestic connectivity landing point rather than an intercontinental gateway.
R100 North is a 224-kilometre submarine cable with a Ready for Service (RFS) year of 2023, currently listed in draft status. The cable connects locations exclusively within the United Kingdom, making it a domestic route. At 224 kilometres, it is considerably shorter than the United Kingdom's average cable length of 1,615 kilometres, reflecting its role in serving a regional or intra-island corridor rather than a long-distance international link.
Within the United Kingdom's network of 125 submarine cable landing points, Scoor hosts a single cable, placing it in the lower tier of landing points by cable count. By comparison, other UK landing points carry significantly heavier traffic: Bude serves eight cables, Lowestoft six, and Blackpool four, while Broadstairs, Porthcurno, and Southport each host three. Scoor's role is therefore more specialised, focused on domestic connectivity to island or remote communities rather than serving as a multi-cable international hub.
Scoor functions as a single-cable terminus within the United Kingdom's submarine cable graph. The R100 North cable it hosts is a domestic route, enabling connectivity between Scottish locations — most plausibly supporting access for communities on or around the Isle of Mull that would otherwise rely on limited terrestrial or wireless infrastructure. Its short cable length and purely domestic scope distinguish it clearly from the United Kingdom's internationally oriented landing points.
In the broader regional submarine cable picture, Scoor represents a class of landing point dedicated to bridging geographic isolation within a single country, demonstrating that submarine cable infrastructure serves not only intercontinental communication but also the connectivity needs of remote island communities.
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