Landing Point · TH Thailand
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) | Active |
| Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) | Active |
| CAT Submarine Network (CSN) | Active |
| FEA | Planned |
| SEA-H2X | Active |
| Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) | Active |
| Thailand Domestic Submarine Cable Network (TDSCN) | Active |
| Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore (TIS) | Active |
| Vietnam-Singapore Cable System (VTS) | Planned |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-06 through 2026-07-13 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1033 | control probe | 101 | 37.8 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 215.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 265.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 223.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 238.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 214.4 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 238.9 ms |
Songkhla, Thailand is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Thailand. 9 international cable systems come ashore here, and together they reach 24 other countries across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. Few landing points on any continent connect directly to as many.
Songkhla, also known as Singgora or Singora, is a city in Songkhla Province of southern Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. Its 9 systems give Songkhla direct international reach to United Arab Emirates, China, Djibouti and Egypt and beyond (24 countries in all), the role that justified building international cable here rather than routing through an inland neighbour.
The roster spans 26 years of build-out, from Thailand Domestic Submarine Cable Network (TDSCN) (2001) to Vietnam-Singapore Cable System (VTS) (2027). Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) (25,000 km and in service since 2017), Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) (10,400 km and in service since 2016), CAT Submarine Network (CSN) (1,240 km and in service since 2013), SEA-H2X (6,000 km and in service since 2026), Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) (10,500 km and in service since 2025), Thailand Domestic Submarine Cable Network (TDSCN) (884 km and in service since 2001), Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore (TIS) (968 km and in service since 2003) and Vietnam-Singapore Cable System (VTS) (in service since 2027). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
With 9 independent systems, Thailand has real redundancy through this point: no single cable cut isolates it from the destinations they share. The exposure is specific: the link to Europe rests on a single cable, with no sibling landing alongside it. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 122 route anomalies across 68 cable systems worldwide. Three have touched this location's own cables: a 129% round-trip latency spike on Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) (2026-04-17, recovered by 2026-04-17), a 148% round-trip latency spike on Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) (2026-04-17, recovered by 2026-04-17) and a 123% round-trip latency spike on Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) (2026-04-01, recovered by 2026-04-01). These were latency events on the systems' wider routes, not outages at the landing itself, and they cleared on their own. This record grows as we detect more, which is the difference between a directory entry and a monitored asset.
The largest access networks in Thailand sit behind this coastal capacity: Advance Wireless Network (20.7% of users), True Online (17.9% of users), AIS Fibre (16.4% of users) and Triple T Broadband Public Company Limited (12.8% of users). See the full national picture for Thailand.
In short, Songkhla, Thailand carries international traffic for Thailand across 9 independent cable systems reaching 24 countries on 4 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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