Landing Point · NZ New Zealand
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Aqualink | Active |
| Tasman Ring Network | Planned |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-12 through 2026-04-28 — 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 | 3 | 369.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 339.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 346.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 341.8 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 323.4 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 320.0 ms |
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki region, situated on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. As a landing point for submarine cables, it connects into the broader network of undersea infrastructure that serves New Zealand and the surrounding region. Two submarine cables land at New Plymouth, making it a modest but meaningful node in New Zealand's submarine cable landscape.
The two cables landing here span both trans-Tasman and domestic connectivity. The Tasman Ring Network links New Plymouth to Australia, enabling a trans-Tasman corridor between the two countries, while the Aqualink cable connects points entirely within New Zealand, supporting inter-city domestic submarine connectivity. Together, these two cables position New Plymouth as a landing point capable of serving both international and intra-national routes.
The Tasman Ring Network is a submarine cable system approximately 6,000 kilometres in length, with a ready-for-service (RFS) date of 2027, currently listed at draft status. The cable connects landing points in Australia and New Zealand, forming a trans-Tasman link that places New Plymouth within an intercontinental corridor spanning the Tasman Sea.
The Aqualink cable has an RFS year of 2001, also listed at draft status. It connects landing points within New Zealand, making it a domestic submarine cable system. Aqualink extends New Plymouth's connectivity to other parts of the country through an undersea route rather than terrestrial infrastructure alone.
Within New Zealand's submarine cable network, which spans 10 cables across 20 landing points, New Plymouth ranks in the top 95% of landing points by cable count, hosting 2 cables. It sits alongside Raglan, Takapuna, and Whenuapai — each also hosting 2 cables — while Auckland leads the country with 3 cables. New Plymouth therefore occupies a mid-tier position among New Zealand's submarine cable landing points, ahead of single-cable sites such as Christchurch and Fighting Bay.
New Plymouth functions as a two-cable landing point, giving it a role in both the domestic New Zealand network via Aqualink and the trans-Tasman corridor via the Tasman Ring Network. The domestic Aqualink cable connects New Plymouth to other New Zealand landing points, while the Tasman Ring Network, once operational in 2027, will extend the city's reach to Australia across approximately 6,000 kilometres of undersea cable.
As a landing point combining a domestic cable with a future intercontinental link, New Plymouth contributes a degree of geographic diversity to New Zealand's west coast submarine cable presence. In the wider regional submarine cable graph, its combination of domestic and trans-Tasman connectivity distinguishes it from single-purpose cable termini elsewhere in the country.
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