Landing Point · SO Somalia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) | Active |
| Gulf2Africa (G2A) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-11 through 2026-05-31 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7404 | RIPE Atlas | 57 | 182.9 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 65.0 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 1 | 9.5 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 29.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 25.2 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 28.5 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 0.8 ms |
Bosaso is a city in the northeastern Bari province of Somalia, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. As the principal commercial center of the Puntland regional state, it also functions as a submarine cable landing point, hosting two international cables that connect the city to destinations across the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Peninsula, and the eastern and southern coasts of Africa. This places Bosaso within a corridor that spans both the Gulf of Aden and the broader Indian Ocean rim.
The two cables landing at Bosaso serve distinct but complementary geographic functions. The Gulf2Africa (G2A) cable links the city directly northward across the Gulf of Aden to Oman, forming a short but significant trans-Gulf connection. The Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) cable extends far more broadly, connecting Bosaso to Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Africa, enabling access along the eastern African seaboard and reaching as far south as South Africa. Together, these two cables make Bosaso a point of intersection between Gulf region and East and Southern African connectivity.
Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) is a submarine cable measuring 4,854 km in length, with a ready-for-service (RFS) year of 2021. In addition to Bosaso, it connects to landing points in Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Africa. DARE 1 is the longer of the two cables at Bosaso and provides onward connectivity along much of the East African coast and down to the southern tip of the continent.
Gulf2Africa (G2A) is a shorter cable at 1,500 km in length, with an RFS year of 2017. It connects Bosaso to Oman, establishing a direct link across the Gulf of Aden between northeastern Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula. G2A represents the earlier of the two cables to reach Bosaso and opened the city's first submarine cable connection to the wider international network.
Within Somalia's submarine cable infrastructure, Bosaso ranks alongside Berbera and Mogadishu as one of three landing points in the country. With two cables, Bosaso sits in the top third of Somali landing points by cable count, behind Berbera with four cables and Mogadishu with three. Somalia as a whole hosts six submarine cables across these three landing points, with the first arriving in 2010.
Bosaso serves as a dual-corridor landing point, simultaneously anchoring a short cross-Gulf link to Oman via G2A and a long-haul East and Southern African route via DARE 1. The combination of these two cables means that Bosaso is not a single-cable terminus but a modest multi-cable hub capable of routing traffic both northward into the Arabian Peninsula and southward along the full eastern African coastline as far as South Africa.
In the regional submarine cable graph, Bosaso's position on the Gulf of Aden coast—where northbound Gulf routes and southbound Indian Ocean coastal routes converge—gives it a geographic role that neither Berbera nor Mogadishu precisely replicates, even though both host more cables overall.
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