Landing Point · MU Mauritius
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-13 through 2026-05-21 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19048 | RIPE Atlas | 24 | 72.6 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 262.5 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 284.6 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 253.9 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 262.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 234.8 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 273.5 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 239.3 ms |
Baie du Tombeau is a coastal village in the Pamplemousses District of Mauritius, situated near the Rivière du Tombeau on the island's northern shoreline. As a submarine cable landing point, it connects Mauritius into a regional network spanning the southwestern Indian Ocean. One submarine cable lands at Baie du Tombeau: the Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System, known as METISS, which links Mauritius with Madagascar, Réunion, and South Africa.
The METISS cable establishes a corridor that is both intercontinental and regional in character, bridging island territories in the Indian Ocean with the African continent. Through this system, Baie du Tombeau participates in the broader southwestern Indian Ocean connectivity framework, joining Mauritius with its neighboring island of Réunion, the large island state of Madagascar, and the South African mainland.
Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) is a 3,200-kilometer submarine cable system that reached ready-for-service status in 2021. In addition to Baie du Tombeau in Mauritius, METISS lands in Madagascar, Réunion, and South Africa, forming a ring-like network of connections across the southwestern Indian Ocean. The cable's design serves both island communities and links them onward to the African continent at its South African landing point.
Mauritius hosts five submarine cables distributed across four landing points, with Baie Jacotet serving as the most connected, hosting three cables. Baie du Tombeau, alongside Grand Baie in Rodrigues and Terre Rouge, each hosts a single cable, placing all three in the same tier by cable count. Within this national landscape, Baie du Tombeau falls within the top 75 percent of Mauritian landing points by cable count and represents one of the island's distinct points of submarine cable access.
Baie du Tombeau functions as a single-cable terminus within Mauritius's submarine cable infrastructure. Through METISS, it enables direct connectivity between Mauritius and three other territories in the southwestern Indian Ocean region: Madagascar, Réunion, and South Africa. The cable's 3,200-kilometer span situates Baie du Tombeau as part of a corridor that connects both island nations and a continental African endpoint, complementing the capacity available at Mauritius's other landing points.
As a single-cable landing point, Baie du Tombeau adds geographic diversity to Mauritius's overall submarine cable footprint, distributing the country's international connectivity across multiple coastal locations rather than concentrating it at a single site. In the regional submarine cable graph, this distribution means that Mauritius maintains multiple independent points of physical cable access, with Baie du Tombeau anchoring the METISS system's Mauritian terminus on the island's northern coast.
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