Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Unitirreno | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-22 through 2026-05-29 — 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 | 51.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 75.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 62.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 121.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 93.5 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 |
Fiumicino is a coastal town in the Metropolitan City of Rome, situated in the Lazio region of central Italy along the Tyrrhenian Sea. Best known internationally as the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the town also serves as a submarine cable landing point on Italy's western coastline. One submarine cable lands at Fiumicino, connecting it to Italy's broader undersea network infrastructure.
The cable landing here, Unitirreno, is a domestic Italian system, meaning Fiumicino's submarine cable connectivity operates within an intra-national corridor rather than reaching across international borders. This places Fiumicino in a distinct category among Italian landing points, contributing to the internal connectivity fabric of the country's submarine cable geography along the Tyrrhenian coast.
Unitirreno is a submarine cable with a length of 1,156 km, scheduled to reach ready-for-service status in 2025, with that designation noted as draft. The cable connects multiple landing points within Italy, making it an entirely domestic system. Its route spans the Tyrrhenian Sea, linking Italian coastal communities along that sea corridor without extending to any foreign territory.
Within Italy's submarine cable landscape, which encompasses 37 cables across 55 landing points, Fiumicino ranks in the lower tier by cable count, hosting a single cable. By comparison, Mazara del Vallo leads Italian landing points with nine cables, while Genoa hosts seven and Catania five. Fiumicino's immediate regional neighbor Civitavecchia, also on the Tyrrhenian coast north of Rome, hosts two cables, placing it one step above Fiumicino in terms of cable density.
Fiumicino functions as a single-cable terminus within Italy's domestic submarine cable network. Through Unitirreno, it participates in an intra-national corridor running along the Tyrrhenian coastline, contributing to connectivity among Italian landing points rather than serving as a gateway to international submarine routes. The cable's 1,156 km length, shorter than Italy's average cable length of 2,763 km, is consistent with its domestic scope.
As a one-cable landing point, Fiumicino represents the more modest end of Italy's distributed submarine cable infrastructure. Nevertheless, its position near Rome along a domestically oriented Tyrrhenian route adds a node to the Italian submarine cable graph in a densely populated and strategically located part of the country's central coastline.
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