Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Piano Isole Minori | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-06-03 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 5 | 53.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 73.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 126.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 69.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 99.8 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 246.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 169.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 63.5 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 1 | 67.4 ms |
Carloforte is a town located on Isola di San Pietro, approximately 7 kilometres off the southwestern coast of Sardinia, Italy, in the Province of Sulcis Iglesiente. As an island community, its connectivity to the Italian mainland relies on submarine cable infrastructure, making it a natural candidate for landing point development. One submarine cable currently lands at Carloforte, connecting it within the broader Italian telecommunications network.
The cable serving Carloforte is the Piano Isole Minori, a domestic Italian system designed to link smaller island communities. The corridor this cable enables is an inter-island and island-to-mainland one, wholly within Italy, reflecting the specific geographic challenge of providing reliable connectivity to offshore island territories such as Isola di San Pietro.
The Piano Isole Minori is an 830-kilometre submarine cable system with a scheduled ready-for-service (RFS) date of 2024, currently at draft status. The cable connects locations exclusively within Italy, serving as a domestic network designed to improve connectivity among Italy's smaller island communities. Carloforte represents one of the landing points on this system, reflecting the town's island position and its need for a dedicated submarine link to the wider Italian network.
Among Italy's 55 submarine cable landing points, Carloforte hosts one cable, placing it in the lower range of the country's landing point hierarchy by cable count. Major Italian landing points such as Mazara del Vallo, with nine cables, and Genoa, with seven, serve as far more extensive hubs within Italy's submarine cable geography. Carloforte is nonetheless comparable to landing points like Civitavecchia and Lampedusa, each of which also hosts two or fewer cables, reflecting the role that smaller and island-based locations play in addressing localised connectivity needs.
Carloforte functions as a single-cable terminus within Italy's submarine cable infrastructure. The Piano Isole Minori system connects it domestically, enabling improved telecommunications access for the island community of Isola di San Pietro. Rather than serving as a gateway for international or intercontinental traffic, Carloforte's role is specifically oriented toward bridging the connectivity gap that exists for smaller Italian island territories.
Within the Italian submarine cable graph, landing points such as Carloforte demonstrate that the national network extends beyond major coastal hubs to reach geographically isolated communities. The presence of a dedicated cable landing here underscores the distributed character of Italy's 37-cable, 55-landing-point submarine infrastructure, which accommodates both high-capacity international routes and domestically focused inter-island systems.
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