Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Piano Isole Minori | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-03 through 2026-05-07 — 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 | 3 | 51.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 124.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 65.8 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 69.4 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 99.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 64.6 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 81.9 ms |
San Nicola di Tremiti is a landing point located on the Tremiti Islands, an archipelago situated in the Adriatic Sea approximately 16 kilometres north of the Gargano Peninsula, within the Province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy. As one of five islands comprising the Tremiti archipelago — which also includes San Domino, Capraia, Cretaccio, and Pianosa — San Nicola forms part of the Gargano national park. Its position as a submarine cable landing point reflects Italy's broader submarine cable infrastructure, which spans 37 cables across 55 landing points nationwide.
One submarine cable lands at San Nicola di Tremiti: the Piano Isole Minori. This cable connects the island community to other points within Italy, making it a domestic inter-island cable link rather than an intercontinental or international corridor. The cable's reach within the Italian national network positions San Nicola di Tremiti as a terminus serving connectivity to the Italian mainland or other Italian island communities.
The Piano Isole Minori is the sole submarine cable landing at San Nicola di Tremiti. Stretching 830 kilometres in total length, the cable reached ready-for-service (RFS) status in 2024, though it carries a draft designation at that date. All endpoints of this cable are located within Italy, making it an entirely domestic infrastructure link. The Piano Isole Minori is designed to serve Italy's minor islands — as its name suggests — and its landing at San Nicola di Tremiti reflects the Tremiti Islands' inclusion in that programme of domestic submarine connectivity.
Within Italy's 55 submarine cable landing points, San Nicola di Tremiti hosts a single cable, placing it among the smaller nodes in the national network. Major Italian landing points such as Mazara del Vallo (9 cables), Genoa (7 cables), Catania (5 cables), and Bari (4 cables) host significantly more submarine cable infrastructure, while San Nicola di Tremiti is more comparable to Civitavecchia and Lampedusa, each of which also hosts a modest number of cables. Nevertheless, San Nicola di Tremiti ranks within the top 80 percent of Italian landing points by cable count, reflecting the concentration of Italy's cable activity at a relatively small number of high-traffic nodes.
San Nicola di Tremiti functions as a single-cable terminus on the Piano Isole Minori, a domestic Italian submarine cable system. Rather than enabling international or intercontinental data flows, this landing point supports intra-national connectivity for the Tremiti Islands, extending reliable submarine links to an archipelago community situated off the Apulian coast in the Adriatic Sea. The 2024 RFS date of the Piano Isole Minori marks a recent addition to Italy's submarine cable landscape.
In the wider Italian submarine cable graph, San Nicola di Tremiti represents the type of landing point dedicated to serving geographically isolated island communities rather than functioning as a multi-cable international hub. The presence of a dedicated cable link here underscores Italy's approach of extending its national submarine network to reach smaller, offshore communities that would otherwise depend on alternative means of connectivity.
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