Sylt, Germany

Sylt, Germany is a submarine cable landing point in Germany (coordinates 54.8985°, 8.3834°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Germany's international connectivity infrastructure.

Sylt is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Frisia. The northernmost island of Germany, it is known for its tourist resorts, notably Westerland, Kampen and Wenningstedt-Braderup, as well as for its 40-kilometre-long (25-mile) sandy beach. It is frequently covered by the media in connection with its exposed situation in the North Sea and its ongoing loss of land during storm tides. Since 1927, Sylt has been connected to the mainland by the Hindenburgdamm causeway. In later years, it has been a resort for the German jet set and tourists in search of occasional celebrity sightings. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Sylt, Germany, international traffic can reach 3 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Sylt, Germany in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Atlantic Crossing-1 (AC-1) (1998) — Atlantic Crossing-1 (AC-1) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Netherlands, United States, Germany, United Kingdom. Its 4 landing points at Beverwijk, Brookhaven, Sylt, Whitesands Bay bridge the networks of Europe, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →

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