Landing Point · PH Philippines
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN) | Active |
| Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-22 through 2026-05-31 — 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 | 5 | 308.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 262.8 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 311.5 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 279.2 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 244.0 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 276.3 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 332.4 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 140.0 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 48.8 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 307.6 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 235.8 ms |
Liloan is a municipality in the province of Cebu, in the central Philippines. As a coastal settlement in the Visayas region, it serves as a landing point for two domestic submarine cables, both of which connect points within the Philippine archipelago. Rather than providing intercontinental or regional international links, the cables terminating at Liloan are oriented toward intra-country connectivity, linking the various island groups and provinces that make up the Philippines.
The two cables landing at Liloan — the Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN) and the Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP) — reflect a pattern of domestic submarine infrastructure designed to bridge the geographic fragmentation of an archipelagic nation. Both are relatively recent additions to the Philippine submarine cable landscape, with ready-for-service dates in 2022 and 2023 respectively.
The Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network (PDSCN) spans 2,500 km and reached ready-for-service status in 2023, currently at draft status. It connects multiple points exclusively within the Philippines, making it a domestic cable system designed to improve inter-island connectivity across the archipelago.
The Submarine Cable in the Philippines (SCiP) extends 1,638 km and reached ready-for-service status in 2022, also at draft status. Like the PDSCN, its endpoints are entirely within the Philippines, reinforcing its role as a domestic inter-island cable rather than an international link.
Among the 71 submarine cable landing points in the Philippines, Liloan ranks within the top 82 percent by cable count, hosting two cables. Several other Philippine landing points carry heavier cable concentrations — Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, and Taytay each host four cables, while Baler and Boracay each host three. Liloan's two cables place it in a mid-tier position within the broader national submarine cable landscape, where the average cable length across all Philippine landings is approximately 4,995 km, considerably longer than either of the domestic cables terminating at Liloan.
Liloan functions as a domestic cable hub within the Philippine inter-island submarine network. With two cables landing here — both entirely domestic in scope — it contributes to the layered web of underwater links that connect the Philippines' dispersed island provinces. Neither cable provides an international gateway; instead, both serve the internal routing of data and communications across the archipelago.
As a landing point hosting two domestic submarine cables in a country with 26 cables spread across 71 locations, Liloan represents an important node in the Philippines' effort to distribute submarine connectivity beyond its major international-facing hubs, extending reliable inter-island links into the Cebu province and the broader Visayas region.
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