Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy)

Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 9 countries across East Africa, Southern Africa, North Africa. With 9 landing points — including Dar Es Salaam, Haramous, Maputo, Mogadishu, Mombasa, and 4 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. As an intercontinental system, Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) plays a role in the global mesh of over 500 submarine cables that collectively carry more than 95% of international data traffic. GeoCables maintains health checks on this cable using distributed RIPE Atlas probes, with automated anomaly detection triggered when RTT exceeds 4x the historical baseline.