Catania, Italy

Catania, Italy is a submarine cable landing point in Italy (coordinates 37.5116°, 15.0674°). It serves 5 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Italy's international connectivity infrastructure.

Catania is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the centre of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, which is among the largest in Italy. It has important road and rail transport infrastructures, and hosts the main airport of Sicily. The city is located on Sicily's east coast, facing the Ionian Sea at the base of the active volcano Mount Etna. It is the capital of the 58-municipality province known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 297,517, while the population of the metropolitan city is 1,068,563. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Catania, Italy

Cables landing at Catania, Italy are operated by 25 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Djibouti Telecom, Epic, GO plc, Myanmar Post and Telecommunication (MPT), Ogero, and 15 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Catania, Italy, international traffic can reach 21 countries through 5 cable systems. Destinations include Bangladesh, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Indonesia and 13 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Catania, Italy in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• SeaMeWe-5 (2016) — SeaMeWe-5 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 16 countries across North Africa, Middle East, Europe. With 18 landing points — including Abu Talat, Al Hudaydah, Catania, Dumai, Fujairah, and 13 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• IMEWE (2010) — IMEWE is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 8 countries across North Africa, Europe, Middle East. With 9 landing points — including Alexandria, Catania, Fujairah, Jeddah, Karachi, and 4 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) (2004) — Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Malta and Italy. Landing at Balluta Bay, Catania, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →
• MedNautilus Submarine System (2001) — MedNautilus Submarine System is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Europe and Middle East, with 7 landing points across 5 countries including Athens, Greece, Catania, Italy, Chania, Greece, Istanbul, Turkey and others. The cable provides cross-continental connectivity, offering an important route for data traffic between Europe and Middle East. Read more →
• Italy-Malta (1994) — Italy-Malta is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Italy and Malta. Landing at Catania, St. George's Bay, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.