Landing Point · IN India
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-16 through 2026-05-03 — 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 | 5 | 203.5 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 257.5 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 221.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 243.4 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 217.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 190.2 ms |
Minicoy, locally known as Maliku, is an island in the Lakshadweep archipelago, a union territory of India situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies on Maliku Atoll, the southernmost atoll of Lakshadweep, approximately 398 km southwest of Kochi on the Indian mainland. As a remote island territory, Minicoy's connectivity to the rest of India depends on submarine cable infrastructure, and the island serves as a landing point for one submarine cable linking it to the Indian mainland.
The single cable landing at Minicoy forms part of the Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands system, a domestic Indian cable project designed to connect the scattered islands of Lakshadweep with the mainland. This cable enables an intra-national corridor, improving connectivity between the island group and metropolitan India rather than providing intercontinental links.
The Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) cable is the sole submarine cable landing at Minicoy. Spanning 1,989 km in total length, this cable reached ready-for-service status in 2024 and is currently at draft status. The cable connects multiple landing points entirely within India, linking the Lakshadweep island group — including Minicoy — to the mainland. As all endpoints of this cable are within India, it functions as a domestic submarine cable system rather than an international one.
Within India's submarine cable network of 21 cables across 26 landing points, Minicoy hosts a single cable and ranks in the top 88% of Indian landing points by cable count. It is comparable in scale to fellow Lakshadweep island landing points Agatti, Amini, and Andrott, each of which also hosts a single cable, while mainland hubs such as Mumbai (18 cables) and Chennai (9 cables) represent significantly larger nodes in the national cable graph. Kochi, the mainland terminus of the KLI-SOFC cable, hosts 2 cables and serves as the primary mainland anchor for Lakshadweep island connectivity.
Minicoy functions as a single-cable terminus within the Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands system, serving the specific purpose of delivering submarine cable connectivity to the southernmost inhabited atoll of Lakshadweep. Its role is intra-national in scope, addressing the connectivity needs of an island community that is geographically isolated from the Indian mainland by nearly 400 km of open sea. The KLI-SOFC cable, with its 2024 ready-for-service date, represents a relatively recent extension of India's submarine cable reach into its island territories.
Unlike major Indian landing points that participate in intercontinental or international cable systems, Minicoy's position in the regional submarine cable graph is defined by its membership in a domestic island connectivity project shared with other Lakshadweep landing points, collectively forming a sub-network that ties the archipelago to mainland India.
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