Yzerfontein, South Africa

Yzerfontein, South Africa is a submarine cable landing point in South Africa (coordinates -33.3482°, 18.1555°). It serves 2 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in South Africa's international connectivity infrastructure.

Yzerfontein, or Ysterfontein, is a small harbour town with about 1200 inhabitants on the west coast of South Africa about 90 km north of Cape Town. The name in Afrikaans means "Iron Fountain".The town started out when the farm 'Yzerfontein' was bought by the Katz-family in the 1930s. Then they started dividing the farm into plots. The main sources of income are tourism, mining and fishing. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Yzerfontein, South Africa

Cables landing at Yzerfontein, South Africa are operated by 24 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Altice Portugal, Angola Cables, Bayobab, Broadband Infraco, Camtel, Cape Verde Telecom, China Mobile, Congo Telecom, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Meta, and 14 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 Yzerfontein, South Africa, international traffic can reach 38 countries through 2 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti and 30 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Yzerfontein, South Africa in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. 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.