Landing Point · MY Malaysia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Batam-Rengit Cable System (BRCS) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-05-30 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1033 | RIPE Atlas | 47 | 103.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 8 | 354.1 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 7 | 323.9 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 7 | 299.6 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 6 | 308.7 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 98.5 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 7.4 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 2 | 233.6 ms |
| #4429 | RIPE Atlas | 1 | 120.8 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 335.6 ms |
Rengit is a town in the Batu Pahat District of Johor, Malaysia, situated on the southwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. As a submarine cable landing point, it connects Malaysia to neighboring Indonesia through a short cross-strait cable link. One submarine cable currently lands at Rengit, establishing a direct bilateral corridor between the two countries.
The cable landing at Rengit enables regional connectivity between Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Batam, which lies across the Strait of Malacca. This short inter-country link reflects the dense maritime geography of the region, where relatively compact submarine routes play an important role in connecting closely positioned national territories.
The Batam-Rengit Cable System (BRCS) is the sole submarine cable landing at Rengit. Spanning 64 kilometres, it was ready for service in 2007. The cable connects Rengit in Malaysia with Batam in Indonesia, forming a direct bilateral submarine link between these two neighbouring countries separated by the Strait of Malacca. At 64 kilometres, the BRCS is a short-haul system reflecting the geographic proximity of its two endpoints.
Among Malaysia's 20 submarine cable landing points, Rengit hosts one cable, placing it in the lower tier of the country's landing point network by cable count. Major Malaysian hubs such as Penang, with six cables, and Mersing, with five, handle considerably higher volumes of international submarine connectivity. Rengit's role is therefore more focused and bilateral in nature compared to these larger multi-cable landing points.
Rengit functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with the Batam-Rengit Cable System providing a dedicated link between Malaysia and Indonesia. The 64-kilometre route across the Strait of Malacca represents one of the shorter submarine cable spans in Malaysia's national cable portfolio, whose average cable length stands at 6,678 kilometres. This short-haul connection serves a specific inter-country corridor, complementing the longer intercontinental routes that land elsewhere along the Malaysian coastline.
Within Malaysia's broader submarine cable graph, which spans 31 cables across 20 landing points, Rengit contributes a direct and geographically compact node on the Malaysia-Indonesia bilateral link. The presence of a dedicated submarine cable at this Johor location underlines how regional submarine infrastructure extends beyond major urban hubs to serve specific cross-border connectivity requirements between closely neighbouring nations.
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