Colombo, Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka is a submarine cable landing point in Sri Lanka (coordinates 6.9267°, 79.8720°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Sri Lanka's international connectivity infrastructure.

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka by population, serving as the country's executive and judicial capital. It is also the de facto commercial capital of Sri Lanka. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the financial centre of the island and a tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island. It is also the administrative capital of the Western Province and the district capital of Colombo District. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Colombo, Sri Lanka

Cables landing at Colombo, Sri Lanka are operated by 18 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Algerie Telecom, Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bharti Airtel, Dhiraagu, FLAG, National Telecom, Orange, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd., Singtel, Sparkle, and 8 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 Colombo, Sri Lanka, international traffic can reach 22 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Iraq and 14 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Colombo, Sri Lanka in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Dhiraagu-SLT Submarine Cable Network (2007) — Dhiraagu-SLT Submarine Cable Network is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Sri Lanka and Maldives. Landing at Colombo, Male, 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 →
• FALCON (2006) — Every submarine cable has an owner. Most have had two. FALCON has survived three bankruptcies — and is still carrying traffic across fourteen countries, from Egypt to Sri Lanka, through some of the most politically complex waters on Earth. The Cable That Outlived Its Owners FALCON stands for FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network. Read more →
• SeaMeWe-4 (2005) — SeaMeWe-4 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 14 countries across North Africa, South Asia, Middle East. With 16 landing points — including Alexandria, Annaba, Bizerte, Chennai, Colombo, and 11 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

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