Pan-American Crossing (PAC)

Pan-American Crossing (PAC) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Panama, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica. Its 5 landing points at Fort Amador, Grover Beach, Mazatlán, Tijuana, Unqui bridge the networks of North America, Central America, providing an important path for international data traffic. As an intercontinental system, Pan-American Crossing (PAC) 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.