Landing Point · US United States
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| AmeriCan-1 | Active |
| Whidbey Island-Seattle | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #13857 | control probe | 85 | 7.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 148.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 133.5 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 165.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 157.9 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 230.2 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 255.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 222.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 168.2 ms |
Seattle, Washington, sits along the eastern shore of Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, making it a natural candidate for submarine cable infrastructure serving the broader coastal corridor of the region. As the most populous city in Washington state, Seattle provides a significant terrestrial network hub behind its marine cable connections. Two submarine cables land at Seattle, WA, linking the city to domestic and cross-border routes.
The two cables landing here serve distinct but related purposes. One connects Seattle into a short cross-border corridor with Canada, while the other forms a domestic intra-state link within the United States. Together they reflect Seattle's role as a regional node within the densely interconnected U.S. Pacific Northwest submarine cable geography rather than as a long-haul intercontinental terminus.
AmeriCan-1 is a 140-kilometre submarine cable that reached ready-for-service status in 1999. It connects landing points in the United States and Canada, establishing a short transborder link across the maritime boundary between the two countries. At 140 km, it is a relatively compact system designed for near-coastal connectivity between the two neighbouring nations.
Whidbey Island-Seattle is a 44-kilometre domestic submarine cable, also entering service in 1999. It connects Seattle to Whidbey Island, both of which are located within the United States. This short domestic cable serves as an intra-state link, bridging Seattle on the mainland with the island community to its northwest via an underwater route through Puget Sound waters.
Within the United States, Seattle, WA, hosts 2 submarine cables, placing it in the upper 84th percentile of the country's 160 landing points by cable count. Major U.S. landing points such as Boca Raton, FL, and San Juan, PR, each host eight cables, while Hermosa Beach, CA, Kapolei, HI, and Myrtle Beach, SC, each host five. Seattle's two cables situate it as a smaller regional node compared to these higher-traffic landing points.
Seattle, WA, functions as a focused regional landing point rather than a multi-cable international hub. Its two cables address specific short-haul needs: one providing a transborder connection to Canada and the other closing a domestic gap between Seattle and Whidbey Island. Both systems entered service simultaneously in 1999, suggesting a coordinated build-out of near-coastal submarine capacity in the Puget Sound area at that time.
In the broader U.S. submarine cable graph, Seattle's landing point represents the Pacific Northwest's direct participation in submarine connectivity at a regional scale. While it does not rival the high cable counts of the nation's busiest landing points, its presence confirms Seattle as a named node in the international submarine cable network, anchoring short cross-border and domestic routes along the northern Pacific coast of the United States.
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