Fortaleza, Brazil

Fortaleza, Brazil is a submarine cable landing point in Brazil (coordinates -3.7185°, -38.5430°). It serves 10 submarine cable systems, making it a major regional hub in Brazil's international connectivity infrastructure.

Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city—Fortaleza surpassed Salvador in 2024 census with a population of slightly over 2.5 million. Currently, it is the eleventh richest city in the country by gross domestic product and the richest in the Northeast, with a GDP of about 73 billion reais. It forms the core of the Fortaleza metropolitan area, which is home to almost 4 million people. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Fortaleza, Brazil

Cables landing at Fortaleza, Brazil are operated by 13 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Algar Telecom, América Móvil (Claro), Angola Cables, Antel Uruguay, Camtel, China Unicom, Cirion Technologies, EllaLink, Google, Meta, and 3 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 Fortaleza, Brazil, international traffic can reach 26 countries through 10 cable systems. Destinations include Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile and 18 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

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

About the cables

• EllaLink (2021) — On June 1, 2021, a signal left Sines, Portugal — a quiet fishing port on the Alentejo coast — and arrived in Fortaleza, Brazil, sixty-two milliseconds later. For the first time in the history of the internet, a European packet reached South America without touching North American soil. Read more →
• South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) (2020) — South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Brazil and Cameroon. Landing at Fortaleza, Kribi, 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 →
• BRUSA (2018) — BRUSA is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Brazil and United States. Landing at Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan, Virginia Beach, 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 →
• South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) (2018) — The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is the first submarine cable to connect Africa and South America directly. Before SACS came online in 2018, internet traffic between Angola and Brazil — two countries separated by roughly 6,000 km of ocean — had no practical option except to route through Europe. Read more →
• Monet (2017) — Based on 38 RIPE Atlas measurements from GeoCables monitoring infrastructure, March–April 2026. Monet is a relatively short submarine cable — 10,556 km of fibre connecting Boca Raton, Florida to two landings in Brazil (Fortaleza and Santos) — that first entered service in 2017. It is also one of the cleanest performers in our entire monitoring queue. Read more →
• America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1) (2014) — The America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1) is a 17,800 km submarine cable running down the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts of the Americas, connecting eight countries — the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Read more →
• South America-1 (SAm-1) (2001) — South America-1 (SAm-1) is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 9 countries across South America, North America. With 16 landing points — including Arica, Barranquilla, Boca Raton, Fortaleza, Las Toninas, and 11 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• GlobeNet (2000) — Based on 28 RIPE Atlas measurements from GeoCables monitoring infrastructure, March–April 2026. GlobeNet is, by some distance, the longest submarine cable system we currently monitor: 23,500 kilometres of fibre tracing an elaborate loop across the western Atlantic and Caribbean, with landings in seven cities across five countries. Read more →
• South American Crossing (SAC) (2000) — South American Crossing (SAC) is a 20,000 km submarine cable commissioned in 2000 that loops around the east and west coasts of South America, connecting twelve landings across eight countries and one US territory. From north to south along the Atlantic: St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro, and Santos in Brazil, Las Toninas in Argentina. Read more →
• Project Waterworth — Project Waterworth is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Southern Africa and South Asia and Oceania, with 9 landing points across 6 countries including Amanzimtoti, South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, Chennai, India, Darwin, NT, Australia and others. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.