Swakopmund, Namibia

Swakopmund, Namibia is a submarine cable landing point in Namibia (coordinates -22.6783°, 14.5281°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Namibia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Swakopmund is a city on the coast of western Namibia, 352 km (219 mi) west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road. It is the capital of the Erongo administrative district. It has 25,047 inhabitants. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Swakopmund, Namibia

Cables landing at Swakopmund, Namibia are operated by 19 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Altice Portugal, Angola Cables, Bayobab, Broadband Infraco, Camtel, Cape Verde Telecom, Congo Telecom, Google, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, 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 Swakopmund, Namibia, international traffic can reach 13 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Ghana, Nigeria and 5 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Swakopmund, Namibia 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

• Equiano (2023) — Equiano is Google's privately-funded submarine cable system connecting Europe and Africa. Activated in stages between 2022 and 2023, it runs roughly 15,000 km from Sesimbra in Portugal down the entire west coast of Africa to Melkbosstrand near Cape Town, with branch landings at Lagos (Nigeria), Lomé (Togo), Swakopmund (Namibia), and the remote British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. Read more →
• West Africa Cable System (WACS) (2012) — The West Africa Cable System (WACS) is a 14,530 km submarine cable constructed by Alcatel-Lucent and ready for service in 2012. It runs from Yzerfontein in South Africa's Western Cape up the entire west coast of Africa to London, with 14 landing points — 12 along the African seaboard (Namibia, Angola, both Congos, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Cape Verde) plus two in Europe (Canar Read more →

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