Landing Point · PH Philippines
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-25 through 2026-05-23 — 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 | 4 | 285.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 316.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 271.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 314.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 244.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 274.6 ms |
Daanbantayan is a municipality in the province of Cebu, in the central Philippines. As a submarine cable landing point, it connects to the country's broader undersea infrastructure network through a domestically oriented cable system. One submarine cable lands at Daanbantayan, linking it to other points within the Philippines rather than to international destinations. This positions the landing point as a node within the Philippine intra-national cable corridor, supporting connectivity across the archipelago.
The cable serving Daanbantayan is the Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP), a domestic system that reflects the particular challenges of providing reliable connectivity across the more than seven thousand islands of the Philippine archipelago. With all endpoints located within the Philippines, SCiP represents a regionally focused infrastructure investment aimed at inter-island connectivity rather than intercontinental reach.
The Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP) is the sole submarine cable landing at Daanbantayan. The system has a total length of 1,638 kilometres and reached its ready-for-service (RFS) date in 2022, making it a relatively recent addition to the Philippine submarine cable landscape. All other landing points on SCiP are also located within the Philippines, confirming its character as a purely domestic, inter-island cable. The system was at draft status at the time of its listing, indicating it was in a formative or commissioning phase around its RFS year.
Within the Philippines, Daanbantayan is one of 71 submarine cable landing points spread across the archipelago. With one cable, it ranks in the top 55 percent of Philippine landing points by cable count, sitting below multi-cable hubs such as Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, and Taytay — each of which hosts four cables — as well as Baler and Boracay, which each serve three. Daanbantayan's single-cable profile is nonetheless consistent with a substantial portion of Philippine landing points, many of which serve primarily domestic or regional connectivity functions.
Daanbantayan functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its connection via SCiP places it within a domestic inter-island network, enabling data transit between Cebu and other points across the Philippine archipelago. The 1,638-kilometre length of SCiP reflects the geographic scope required to link dispersed island communities within a single national cable system.
In the broader Philippine submarine cable graph — which encompasses 26 cables landing across 71 points — Daanbantayan represents one of many geographically distributed access nodes whose role is to extend domestic cable reach into communities and provinces that might otherwise depend solely on terrestrial or wireless links. Its presence on SCiP ensures that Daanbantayan participates directly in the archipelago's undersea connectivity layer.
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