Matara, Sri Lanka

Matara, Sri Lanka is a submarine cable landing point in Sri Lanka (coordinates 5.9408°, 80.5399°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Sri Lanka's international connectivity infrastructure.

Matara is a major city in Sri Lanka, on the southern coast of Southern Province. It is the second largest city in Southern Province. It is 160 km (99 mi) from Colombo. It is a major commercial hub, the administrative capital and largest city of Matara District. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Matara, Sri Lanka

Cables landing at Matara, Sri Lanka are operated by 26 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Dhiraagu, Djibouti Telecom, Microsoft, Mobily, and 16 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Matara, Sri Lanka, international traffic can reach 20 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Italy and 12 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Matara, Sri Lanka in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• SeaMeWe-6 (2026) — SEA-ME-WE 6 is the sixth submarine cable in a series that has been laying fibre between Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe since 1985. The original SEA-ME-WE (just SEA-ME-WE, no number) was commissioned in 1985 as one of the earliest long-haul submarine cables in the modern sense. SEA-ME-WE 2 followed in 1994, SEA-ME-WE 3 in 1999, SEA-ME-WE 4 in 2005, SEA-ME-WE 5 in 2016. Read more →
• India Asia Xpress (IAX) (2024) — India Asia Xpress (IAX) is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 6 countries across South Asia, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia. With 9 landing points — including Chennai, Digha, Hulhumale, Machilipatnam, Matara, and 4 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• SeaMeWe-5 (2016) — SeaMeWe-5 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 16 countries across North Africa, Middle East, Europe. With 18 landing points — including Abu Talat, Al Hudaydah, Catania, Dumai, Fujairah, and 13 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.