Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| ROMSAR 2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-12 through 2026-06-03 — 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 | 4 | 52.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 65.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 71.6 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 65.3 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 126.1 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 97.0 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 246.7 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 169.7 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 1 | 67.3 ms |
La Maddalena is a town located on the Maddalena archipelago in the Province of Gallura, in northern Sardinia, Italy. Situated off the northeastern coast of Sardinia in the Tyrrhenian Sea, it serves as a submarine cable landing point within Italy's broader undersea communications network. One submarine cable lands at La Maddalena: ROMSAR 2, a domestic cable connecting points within Italy.
The single cable landing here links La Maddalena into the Italian national submarine cable infrastructure. Given that ROMSAR 2 connects Italian endpoints, this landing point supports intra-national connectivity rather than intercontinental or cross-border international routing. Italy as a whole hosts 37 submarine cables across 55 landing points, and La Maddalena represents one of the smaller nodes in that national network.
ROMSAR 2 is the sole submarine cable landing at La Maddalena. It reached ready-for-service (RFS) status in 1996, with a draft designation attached to that date. The cable connects landing points within Italy, making it a domestic submarine link rather than an international one. No cable length or additional technical specifications are recorded for this system.
Among Italy's 55 submarine cable landing points, La Maddalena hosts a single cable, placing it among the more modestly served nodes in the country. By comparison, Mazara del Vallo leads with nine cables, Genoa follows with seven, and Catania serves five, while even smaller hubs such as Civitavecchia and Lampedusa each host two cables. La Maddalena ranks within the top 80 percent of Italian landing points by cable count, reflecting Italy's wide distribution of submarine cable infrastructure across many coastal and island locations.
La Maddalena functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. The ROMSAR 2 system, operational since 1996, connects this Sardinian island town to other points within Italy, supporting domestic submarine connectivity for the Maddalena archipelago. This role is consistent with Italy's pattern of deploying submarine cables to serve its numerous islands and coastal communities, ensuring that geographically separated territories maintain reliable fixed links to the mainland or to other Italian coastal nodes.
Within the Italian submarine cable graph, La Maddalena represents one of many distributed landing points that together give the country one of the denser national submarine cable networks in the Mediterranean, even where individual nodes carry only a single system.
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