Whitesands Bay, United Kingdom

Whitesands Bay, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 50.0785°, -5.6985°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Whitesands Bay is a Blue Flag beach situated on the St David's peninsula in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales. Whitesand Bay, on some maps, located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of St. Davids and 1 mile (1.6 km) south of St Davids Head, has been described as the best surfing beach in Pembrokeshire. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Whitesands Bay, United Kingdom

Cables landing at Whitesands Bay, United Kingdom are operated by 1 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Colt. 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 Whitesands Bay, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 5 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.

Monitoring status

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

About the cables

• Pan European Crossing (UK-Ireland) (2000) — Pan European Crossing (UK-Ireland) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Ireland and United Kingdom. Landing at Ballinesker, Ballygrangans, Bude, Whitesands Bay, 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 →
• 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.