Incident report · 2026040508
Italy-Albania cable: latency up 13%, 5 Apr 2026
Resolved · 2h 58m
What we measured
| Cable | Italy-Albania |
| Segment | Durres, AL → Bari, IT |
| Detected | 2026-04-05 20:32 UTC |
| Resolved | 2026-04-05 23:31 UTC |
| Duration | 2h 58m |
| Observed latency | 45.3 ms |
| Baseline | 40.1 ms · 1.13× |
| Increase | +111% |
| Severity | warning |
Who is affected
Countries where Italy-Albania comes ashore, how much of their submarine diversity this cable represents, and what our measurements into them show.
| Country | Dependence on this cable | Other submarine cables | What the measurements show |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania resilience index: 51 · vulnerable |
1 of 4 cables (25% of submarine diversity) | Adria-1, EAGLE, Trans Adriatic Express (TAE) | average 18 ms over the last day vs 53 ms over 30 days - faster |
| Italy resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 38 cables (3% of submarine diversity) | 2Africa, ANDROMEDA, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) +34 more | median 94 ms today vs 81 ms over 30 days (374 routes) - slower |
Dependence is structural (share of the country's submarine cables), not a traffic share: real traffic distribution across cables is not public.
Path analysis
No usable traceroute data for this window.
Cross-probe verdict. Too few independent vantage points were watching this endpoint to reach a cross-probe verdict.
Timeline
- Alert #51: warning (backfilled)
- Alert #51 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK checks
- Alert #51 improving: 2/3 consecutive OK checks
- Alert #51 resolved: RTT 45.25ms (baseline 40.13ms)
Detection method
Latency is sampled continuously from our probe network. An alert opens when round-trip time to a monitored endpoint holds above its rolling baseline, and closes automatically once it returns. Full method is described on the methodology page.
How to cite
GeoCables (2026). Incident 2026040508: Italy-Albania. https://geocables.com/incident/2026040508
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