Virginia Beach, VA, United States

Virginia Beach, VA, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 36.7550°, -76.0592°). It serves 4 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. The city is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in southeastern Virginia. It is the sixth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, ninth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 42nd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 459,470 at the 2020 census. Virginia Beach is a principal city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which has more than 1.8 million inhabitants and is the 37th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Virginia Beach, VA, United States

Cables landing at Virginia Beach, VA, United States are operated by 5 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Confluence Networks, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Telxius. 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 Virginia Beach, VA, United States, international traffic can reach 4 countries through 4 cable systems. Destinations include Brazil, France, Spain, United States.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Virginia Beach, VA, United States 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

• Confluence-1 (2026) — Confluence-1 is a domestic submarine cable network within United States, connecting 5 coastal and island locations including Boca Raton, Jacksonville, Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Wall Township. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →
• Dunant (2021) — Dunant is a point-to-point submarine cable linking France and United States. Landing at Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, Virginia Beach, 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 →
• BRUSA (2018) — BRUSA is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Brazil and United States. Landing at Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan, Virginia Beach, 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 →
• MAREA (2018) — MAREA is the submarine cable you have probably heard of without realizing it. When commissioned in February 2018, it was the highest-capacity trans-Atlantic cable in service and the first major trans-Atlantic system owned by a partnership of cloud companies rather than by a traditional telco consortium. Read more →

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