San Foca, Italy

San Foca, Italy is a submarine cable landing point in Italy (coordinates 40.3020°, 18.4052°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Italy's international connectivity infrastructure.

The FISA–FOCA war was a political battle contested throughout the early 1980s by two now-defunct representative organizations in Formula One motor racing, the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) and the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA). The battle boiled during the late 1970s and early 1980s and came to a head when the racing teams affiliated with FOCA, an equivalent to a racing team union, boycotted the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From San Foca, Italy, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Albania. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving San Foca, Italy 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

• Trans Adriatic Express (TAE) (2023) — Trans Adriatic Express (TAE) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Italy and Albania. Landing at San Foca, Seman, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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