Landing Point · FR France
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Corse-Continent 4 (CC4) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-12 through 2026-05-27 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 5 | 106.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 5 | 99.9 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 76.5 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 5 | 81.9 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 47.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 57.8 ms |
Cannes is a resort city situated on the French Riviera, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Its Mediterranean coastline places it within a region where submarine cable infrastructure connects the French mainland with surrounding territories. One submarine cable lands at Cannes, linking it directly to the island of Corsica and establishing a regional corridor between continental France and its Mediterranean island territory.
The single cable landing at Cannes, the Corse-Continent 4 (CC4), represents a focused point of connectivity oriented entirely toward intra-French regional communications. Rather than serving as a gateway to foreign networks, Cannes functions as a mainland terminus for a short domestic submarine link spanning the waters between the French Riviera and Corsica.
Corse-Continent 4 (CC4) is a submarine cable with a length of 190 km, ready for service in 1992. As its name suggests, the cable connects continental France with Corsica, with both endpoints falling within French territory. It is among the earliest submarine cables in France's infrastructure, sharing the distinction of a 1992 RFS date with the country's first recorded submarine cable deployments. The relatively short length of the system reflects the geographic proximity of Corsica to the French Riviera coast, making Cannes a logical mainland anchor for this inter-island connection.
Within France's submarine cable network, which spans 34 cables across 27 landing points, Cannes hosts a single cable and ranks within the top 85 percent of French landing points by cable count. Marseille stands out as the dominant hub in the broader region with 16 cables, while Cannes shares its single-cable status with Bastia and Bonifacio — two Corsican landing points that, like Cannes, serve focused regional connections. Ajaccio, also in Corsica, hosts two cables, placing it a step above Cannes in terms of connectivity volume.
Cannes serves as a single-cable mainland terminus, anchoring the Corse-Continent 4 system on the continental French side of the Mediterranean. The connection it enables is strictly domestic and regional in character, bridging the French mainland with Corsica rather than reaching toward international or intercontinental destinations. This contrasts with larger French landing points such as Marseille, which support wide-ranging global connectivity.
As a single-cable landing point dedicated to an intra-French corridor, Cannes occupies a specific and bounded role in the French submarine cable graph — one that reflects the practical need to maintain dedicated undersea links between mainland France and its Mediterranean island territory, independent of longer international routes.
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