Landing Point · US United States
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Columbus-II b | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-23 through 2026-06-03 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 137.1 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 138.9 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 174.2 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 230.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 216.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 162.7 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 163.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 165.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 133.8 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 134.9 ms |
West Palm Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, situated on the southeastern coast of the United States. It lies immediately west of Palm Beach, which occupies a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lagoon — a coastal configuration that positions the area along the Atlantic seaboard, where submarine cable landings connecting the Americas have historically been routed. One submarine cable lands at West Palm Beach, making it a single-cable terminus within the broader United States submarine cable network.
The cable landing here, Columbus-II b, connects West Palm Beach to other points within the United States, representing a domestic segment of a wider cable system. While the landing point serves a focused role rather than a multi-cable hub function, it forms part of a national infrastructure that spans 113 submarine cables across 160 landing points throughout the United States.
Columbus-II b is a submarine cable with a length of 2,068 km, ready for service in 1994 and currently listed with draft status. Its other endpoints are located within the United States, meaning the cable connects domestic American landing points. At 2,068 km, the route is consistent with an intra-coastal or Gulf and Atlantic corridor linking sites along the US eastern seaboard or extending toward US territories and associated coastal areas.
Within Florida and the broader southeastern United States, West Palm Beach sits alongside more heavily connected landing points. Nearby Boca Raton, FL hosts eight submarine cables, making it one of the more densely connected landing points in the state and the country. West Palm Beach, with its single cable, ranks in the top 69% of all 167 landing points in the United States by cable count, reflecting a modest but established presence in the national submarine cable geography.
West Palm Beach functions as a single-cable terminus, hosting the Columbus-II b system and enabling a domestic submarine cable connection along the United States coastline. Its role is narrowly defined compared to multi-cable hubs such as Boca Raton or San Juan, Puerto Rico, which each accommodate eight cables spanning international and intercontinental routes. The Columbus-II b cable, ready for service in 1994, places West Palm Beach among the earlier-generation cable landings in the United States, where the first submarine cable came into service in 1992.
In the regional submarine cable graph, West Palm Beach represents a point of singular connectivity — a terminus rather than an interchange — that nonetheless contributes to the distributed architecture of domestic submarine cable routing along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
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