Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Piano Isole Minori | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-17 through 2026-05-29 — 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 | 3 | 55.6 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 77.3 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 129.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 69.1 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 246.7 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 264.6 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 64.2 ms |
Marsala is a city located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost part of Sicily, Italy. Positioned along the western Sicilian coastline, Marsala serves as a submarine cable landing point hosting one submarine cable. That cable, Piano Isole Minori, connects Marsala to other locations within Italy, placing this landing point within a domestic inter-island and coastal connectivity framework rather than an intercontinental corridor.
With one submarine cable currently landing here, Marsala represents a single-cable terminus in Italy's broader submarine cable network. The Piano Isole Minori cable, with a length of 830 kilometres, was designated as a ready-for-service system in 2024, making Marsala a relatively recent addition to Italy's submarine cable infrastructure map.
Piano Isole Minori is an 830-kilometre submarine cable with a ready-for-service year of 2024, currently listed at draft status. The cable connects multiple landing points within Italy, providing domestic submarine connectivity along Italian coastal and island routes. As an entirely Italy-internal system, Piano Isole Minori is designed to serve connectivity needs among Italy's smaller islands and coastal communities rather than linking to foreign nations.
Within Italy's submarine cable landscape, which spans 37 cables across 55 landing points, Marsala ranks among the lower end of the country's landing points by cable count. Nearby Mazara del Vallo, also in western Sicily, hosts nine submarine cables, making it one of the most connected landing points in the country, while Catania on the eastern coast of Sicily hosts five. Marsala's single-cable profile places it alongside modestly connected Italian landing points such as Civitavecchia and Lampedusa, each of which hosts two cables.
Marsala functions as a single-cable terminus within Italy's domestic submarine cable network. Through the Piano Isole Minori system, it participates in a network designed to extend connectivity to Italy's minor islands and coastal regions, enabling intra-national submarine links that supplement terrestrial infrastructure. The cable's relatively modest length of 830 kilometres reflects the regional, domestic nature of the connectivity it provides.
As Italy continues to develop its submarine infrastructure — with a national footprint of 37 cables and 55 landing points — landing points like Marsala represent the network's reach into western Sicily, ensuring that even mid-sized coastal cities in areas such as the Province of Trapani maintain a direct presence in the submarine cable graph connecting Italy's island territories.
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