Seixal, Portugal

Seixal, Portugal is a submarine cable landing point in Portugal (coordinates 38.6423°, -9.1074°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Portugal's international connectivity infrastructure.

Seixal is a Portuguese city and municipality, located in the district of Setúbal, in the metropolitan area of Lisbon. Its population includes 184,269 inhabitants (2011), in an area of 93.58 square kilometres (36.13 mi2) that includes six parishes. It is situated across the Tagus River estuary from Lisbon. Its seat is the city of Seixal, a centre of 31,600 inhabitants situated along the Rio Judeu. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Seixal, Portugal

Cables landing at Seixal, Portugal are operated by 19 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Altice Portugal, Angola Cables, Bayobab, Broadband Infraco, Camtel, Cape Verde Telecom, Congo Telecom, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, MainOne - An Equinix Company, Office Congolais de Poste et Télécommunication, and 9 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Seixal, Portugal, international traffic can reach 14 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria and 6 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Seixal, Portugal in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• West Africa Cable System (WACS) (2012) — West Africa Cable System (WACS) is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 13 countries across West Africa, Europe, Southern Africa. With 13 landing points — including Abidjan, Accra, El Goro, Lagos, Limbe, and 8 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• MainOne (2010) — MainOne is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Portugal. Its 5 landing points at Abidjan, Accra, Dakar, Lagos, Seixal bridge the networks of West Africa, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Tata TGN-Western Europe (2002) — Tata TGN-Western Europe is a regional submarine cable serving 3 countries: Spain, United Kingdom, Portugal. With landing points at Bilbao, Highbridge, Seixal, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.