Landing Point · PG Papua New Guinea
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-04-24 — 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 | 6 | 176.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 208.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 6 | 268.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 259.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 182.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 200.1 ms |
Kokopo is the capital of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea, situated on the island of New Britain in the southwestern Pacific. The city grew significantly following the 1994 volcanic eruptions of Tavurvur and Vulcan, which prompted the relocation of the provincial capital from nearby Rabaul. As a coastal settlement on an island province, Kokopo is served by submarine cable infrastructure connecting it to the broader national and regional network.
One submarine cable lands at Kokopo: the Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System. This system links Kokopo to other points within Papua New Guinea and extends to Indonesia, enabling both domestic inter-island connectivity and a cross-border link with a neighbouring country. The cable supports connectivity between island communities and the national mainland, reflecting the geographic reality of Papua New Guinea as an archipelagic nation.
The Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System is a 5,457 km cable with a Ready for Service (RFS) date of 2019, currently listed with draft status. It connects multiple landing points within Papua New Guinea and also reaches Indonesia, making it both a domestic inter-island system and a link to a neighbouring country. Kokopo is one of the Papua New Guinea termini on this system, placing the city within a network that spans a significant stretch of the southwestern Pacific and its surrounding waters.
Within Papua New Guinea's submarine cable landscape, which spans 15 landing points, Kokopo sits alongside several single-cable landing points including Alotau, Arawa, Daru, and Kavieng, while Port Moresby leads the country with four cables and Madang hosts two. Kokopo's single cable places it in the mid-to-lower tier of Papua New Guinea landing points by cable count, sharing the same level as a number of other provincial and island communities connected by the Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System.
Kokopo functions as a single-cable terminus on the Kumul Domestic Submarine Cable System, providing East New Britain Province with a direct submarine cable connection to the rest of Papua New Guinea and to Indonesia. This link is particularly significant given the island geography of East New Britain, where overland connectivity to other provinces is not available and submarine cable infrastructure represents the primary means of high-capacity fixed data transmission between the island and the national network.
Within the broader Papua New Guinea submarine cable graph, Kokopo represents one of several island and coastal communities brought into the national digital network through the Kumul system, contributing to the geographic spread of submarine cable coverage across an archipelagic nation where connectivity between dispersed island populations depends on undersea links.
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