Landing Point · IN India
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-02 through 2026-05-30 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 9 | 265.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 9 | 221.8 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 8 | 190.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 237.3 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 213.8 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 323.2 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 164.7 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 83.6 ms |
Kavaratti is an atoll in the Indian Union Territory of Lakshadweep, located approximately 360 kilometres west of the Malabar coast in mainland India. The settlement of Kavaratti serves as the capital of Lakshadweep and is one of the more remote inhabited locations along India's submarine cable geography. One submarine cable lands at Kavaratti, connecting this island capital to the Indian mainland and establishing a dedicated undersea link between the archipelago and the continental landmass.
The single cable serving Kavaratti is the Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) system, which runs entirely within Indian territory, linking Kavaratti and other Lakshadweep islands to the port city of Kochi on the Kerala coast. This cable defines Kavaratti's role as a domestic inter-island landing point rather than an intercontinental or transoceanic hub. The corridor it establishes is an intra-national one, spanning the gap between an isolated island group and the Indian subcontinent.
The Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) cable is 1,989 kilometres in length and reached ready-for-service status in 2024, currently listed at draft status. The cable connects multiple points within India, linking the Lakshadweep island group — including Kavaratti — to Kochi on the mainland. With all endpoints located within India, the system is a domestic submarine cable, purpose-built to extend connectivity to the geographically isolated islands of Lakshadweep. Kavaratti, as the capital of the union territory, is among the landing points served by this system.
Within India's submarine cable network, Kavaratti sits at the smaller end of the landing point spectrum. India hosts 21 submarine cables across 26 landing points, with major hubs such as Mumbai hosting 18 cables and Chennai hosting 9. Kavaratti's single-cable profile aligns it with peer island landing points including Agatti, Amini, and Andrott — all of which also host one cable each — reflecting the specific connectivity requirements of the Lakshadweep archipelago rather than the high-density international traffic served by India's larger coastal cities.
Kavaratti functions as a single-cable terminus within India's domestic submarine infrastructure. The KLI-SOFC system positions Kavaratti as a receiving point for connectivity originating from Kochi, extending the terrestrial network of mainland India across open ocean to a capital that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or aerial links. The cable's 2024 RFS date makes Kavaratti one of India's more recently activated landing points.
As a terminus rather than a transit node, Kavaratti does not route traffic onward to further destinations. Its significance in the regional submarine cable graph lies in representing the class of island landing points that submarine systems are specifically built to serve — geographically isolated administrative centres whose connectivity depends entirely on purpose-laid undersea infrastructure.
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