Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| SARCO | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-12 through 2026-06-01 — 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 | 64.8 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 70.3 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 246.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 169.8 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 87.7 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 120.3 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 77.1 ms |
Santa Teresa Gallura is a town situated at the northern tip of Sardinia, facing the Strait of Bonifacio in northeastern Italy. Its position on this narrow strait, which separates Sardinia from the French island of Corsica, makes it a natural geographic bridge between Italian and French territory. One submarine cable currently lands at Santa Teresa Gallura, connecting Italy and France across this short but significant stretch of water.
The single cable serving Santa Teresa Gallura is SARCO, which links the town directly to France. This connection represents a short cross-strait corridor rather than a long intercontinental route, reflecting the town's role as a near-shore link between two neighboring European nations separated by the Strait of Bonifacio.
SARCO reached ready-for-service status in 2006 and connects Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy, to France. The cable operates as a bilateral link between these two countries, taking advantage of the narrow maritime gap between northern Sardinia and Corsica. No length or additional technical specifications are recorded for this cable.
Within Italy's submarine cable landscape, Santa Teresa Gallura is a modest landing point. Italy hosts 37 submarine cables across 55 landing points, with major hubs such as Mazara del Vallo serving nine cables and Genoa serving seven. With one cable, Santa Teresa Gallura ranks in the top 80 percent of Italian landing points by cable count, placing it among the smaller but still active nodes in the country's overall submarine cable network.
Santa Teresa Gallura functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its one connection, SARCO, provides a direct link between Sardinia and France, enabling communication across the Strait of Bonifacio. The geographic proximity of the two endpoints — Sardinia and Corsica — means this landing point supports a distinctly regional, short-haul corridor rather than the longer intercontinental routes that characterize Italy's larger cable hubs.
In the broader submarine cable graph of the Mediterranean, Santa Teresa Gallura occupies a specialized position: a dedicated bilateral link between Italian and French territory at one of the narrowest points of the western Mediterranean. This focused, point-to-point connectivity distinguishes it from the multi-cable aggregation points that dominate Italy's submarine cable infrastructure.
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