Landing Point · TN Tunisia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Didon | Active |
| HANNIBAL System | Active |
| Trapani-Kelibia 2 (KELTRA-2) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-04-10 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #50604 | RIPE Atlas | 110 | 276.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 20 | 214.6 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 19 | 187.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 19 | 252.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 19 | 238.0 ms |
Kelibia is a coastal town situated on the Cap Bon peninsula in Nabeul Governorate, in the far north-eastern part of Tunisia. Its position on this prominent peninsula, which extends toward Sicily and the Italian coastline, makes it a natural focal point for submarine cable connections crossing the central Mediterranean. Three submarine cables land at Kelibia, making it one of Tunisia's two submarine cable landing points alongside Bizerte.
All three cables landing at Kelibia connect Tunisia directly to Italy, establishing a concentrated bilateral corridor between North Africa and southern Europe. The cables — Trapani-Kelibia 2, the HANNIBAL System, and Didon — collectively form a dedicated, multi-system link across the Sicilian Channel, one of the narrowest stretches of the Mediterranean Sea. This grouping of short, focused cables to a single bilateral partner distinguishes Kelibia from landing points that serve broader, multi-country routes.
Trapani-Kelibia 2 (KELTRA-2) is a submarine cable of 209 km that reached ready-for-service status in 2007. It connects Kelibia, Tunisia to Italy, linking the Cap Bon peninsula with the Sicilian port city of Trapani across the central Mediterranean.
HANNIBAL System spans 178 km and entered service in 2009. Like its counterpart, it connects Kelibia to Italy, providing an additional direct submarine link between Tunisia and Sicilian shores.
Didon is the most recent of the three cables to reach service, with an RFS year of 2014. At 170 km, it is the shortest of the cables landing at Kelibia and again terminates in Italy, reinforcing the bilateral nature of Kelibia's submarine cable infrastructure.
Tunisia's submarine cable infrastructure is distributed across two landing points: Kelibia and Bizerte. Both landing points host three submarine cables each, accounting for all six submarine cables serving the country. Kelibia's three cables are notably uniform in character — all short-haul systems connecting exclusively to Italy — whereas the two landing points together form the complete national submarine cable footprint.
Kelibia functions as a dedicated multi-cable hub for Tunisia-Italy connectivity. With three separate submarine cable systems — Trapani-Kelibia 2, HANNIBAL System, and Didon — all directed at a single bilateral partner, the landing point provides a concentrated set of cross-Mediterranean links rather than a diversified international gateway. Each cable is relatively short, reflecting the geography of the Sicilian Channel, and all three arrived in service across a seven-year window between 2007 and 2014.
In the regional submarine cable graph, Kelibia represents a specialised node: a point where multiple independent systems converge on the same bilateral corridor, offering Tunisia redundancy in its direct connection to the Italian network. Its pairing with Bizerte as Tunisia's only two landing points means that together they carry the full weight of the country's submarine cable capacity.
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