Landing Point · MU Mauritius
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Mauritius and Rodrigues Submarine Cable System (MARS) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-04 through 2026-05-26 — 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 | 2 | 270.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 286.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 255.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 269.5 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 238.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 298.9 ms |
Grand Baie (Rodrigues) is a submarine cable landing point located in Rodrigues, an island forming part of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. As an outlying island relative to the Mauritian mainland, Rodrigues depends on submarine cable infrastructure for its connectivity to the wider national network. One submarine cable lands at Grand Baie (Rodrigues), connecting the island directly to Mauritius.
The single cable serving this landing point is the Mauritius and Rodrigues Submarine Cable System, known as MARS. This system establishes a dedicated inter-island link between Rodrigues and Mauritius, providing a purpose-built submarine connection between the two parts of the Mauritian archipelago. The MARS cable represents the foundational submarine infrastructure for Rodrigues as an island community.
The Mauritius and Rodrigues Submarine Cable System (MARS) is 677 kilometres in length and reached its ready-for-service date in 2019, on a draft basis. The cable connects Grand Baie (Rodrigues) to Mauritius, forming an inter-island submarine link entirely within the national territory of Mauritius. It is the sole submarine cable serving Grand Baie (Rodrigues), and its route spans the open ocean between Rodrigues and the main island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Within Mauritius, submarine cable infrastructure is distributed across three landing points. Baie Jacotet on the main island hosts two cables, making it the most connected landing point in the country, while Baie du Tombeau hosts one cable, the same count as Grand Baie (Rodrigues). Grand Baie (Rodrigues) is therefore positioned alongside Baie du Tombeau in the lower tier by cable count, though it serves the geographically distinct island of Rodrigues rather than the Mauritian mainland.
Grand Baie (Rodrigues) functions as a single-cable terminus, serving as the Rodrigues endpoint of the MARS inter-island system. The landing point enables direct submarine connectivity between the island of Rodrigues and the main island of Mauritius, supporting the integration of Rodrigues into the broader Mauritian national network. The corridor this landing point defines is entirely domestic in character, linking two islands within the same sovereign territory rather than spanning international borders.
As the only submarine cable landing point on Rodrigues, Grand Baie (Rodrigues) occupies a singular position in the Mauritian submarine cable graph: it is the sole point through which Rodrigues connects to the undersea cable network, making the MARS system and this landing point the exclusive submarine gateway for the island.
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