Santos, Brazil

Santos, Brazil is a submarine cable landing point in Brazil (coordinates -23.9618°, -46.3281°). It serves 5 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Brazil's international connectivity infrastructure.

This article is about a city and municipality called Santos. For other information associated with association football clubs, see Santos FC. Santos, officially Municipality of Estância Balneária de Santos, is a city and municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas. It is located mostly on the island of São Vicente, which harbors both the city of Santos and the city of São Vicente. It is the main city in the metropolitan region of Baixada Santista. Santos has a population of 440,965 in an area of 280.67 km2 (108.37 sq mi). The city is home to the Coffee Museum, where world coffee prices were once negotiated, as well as home to the Port of Santos, where nearly 29% of the country's trade flow passing through the port. Santos also has a football memorial, called Memorial das Conquistas, which is dedicated to the city's greatest players, which includes Pelé, who spent the majority of his career with Santos Futebol Clube. Its beachfront garden, 5,335 m (5,834 yd) in length, figures in Guinness World Records as the largest beachfront garden in the world. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Santos, Brazil

Cables landing at Santos, Brazil are operated by 7 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Algar Telecom, Angola Cables, Antel Uruguay, Cirion Technologies, Google, Sparkle, Telxius. 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 Santos, Brazil, international traffic can reach 13 countries through 5 cable systems. Destinations include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and 5 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Santos, Brazil in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Junior (2018) — Junior is a submarine cable system operating within Brazil, with landing points at Rio de Janeiro, Santos. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →
• Tannat (2018) — Tannat is a regional submarine cable serving 3 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. With landing points at Las Toninas, Maldonado, Santos, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →
• Monet (2017) — Monet is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United States and Brazil. Landing at Boca Raton, Fortaleza, Santos, 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 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 →
• South American Crossing (SAC) (2000) — South American Crossing (SAC) is a regional submarine cable connecting 8 countries — Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and others — with 11 landing points including Buenaventura, Colombia, Colón, Panama, Fort Amador, Panama, Fortaleza, Brazil and others. Read more →

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