Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Sumgait, Azerbaijan is a submarine cable landing point in Azerbaijan (coordinates 40.5897°, 49.6686°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Azerbaijan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Sumgait, officially Sumqayit; ; is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about 31 kilometres away from the capital Baku. The city had a population of 427,000 at the beginning of 2024, making it the second largest city in Azerbaijan after Baku. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Sumgait, Azerbaijan, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Kazakhstan. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Sumgait, Azerbaijan 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

• Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic Cable Project (2026) — Trans-Caspian Fiber Optic Cable Project is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Landing at Aktau, Sumgait, 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.