Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| SARCO | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-12 through 2026-07-10 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 7 | 246.5 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 5 | 66.7 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 4 | 61.6 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 4 | 44.9 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 3 | 169.5 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 70.3 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, Italy, positioned along the Strait of Bonifacio. This narrow waterway separates Sardinia from the French island of Corsica, whose southern coast is visible from the shoreline. The town's geographic placement at this strait makes it a natural point of passage for submarine cable infrastructure connecting Italy and France across a short but strategically positioned channel.
One submarine cable lands at Santa Teresa Gallura, the SARCO cable, which connects Sardinia to France. The route this cable enables is a cross-strait link between Italian and French territory, representing a regional rather than intercontinental corridor. While modest in cable count, the landing point reflects the role that Sardinia's northern coast plays in channeling connectivity across the Strait of Bonifacio.
SARCO reached ready-for-service status in 2006 and links Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy with France. The cable's route spans the Strait of Bonifacio, connecting the northern tip of Sardinia to the French side of this narrow maritime passage. SARCO currently holds draft status in cable records. No length, capacity, or fiber-pair specifications are available for this cable.
Within Italy's submarine cable landscape, which spans 37 cables across 55 landing points, Santa Teresa Gallura hosts a single cable and ranks within the top 80 percent of Italian landing points by cable count. Larger Italian hubs such as Mazara del Vallo, which hosts nine cables, Genoa with seven, and Catania with five, serve considerably more cable systems. Santa Teresa Gallura is comparable in scale to Civitavecchia and Lampedusa, each of which also hosts two or fewer cables.
Santa Teresa Gallura functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its sole connection, the SARCO cable, establishes a direct link between northern Sardinia and France across the Strait of Bonifacio, a corridor that takes advantage of the minimal maritime distance between these two territories at this point. The landing point does not aggregate multiple international routes but instead serves a focused bilateral connection between Italy and France.
Within the broader Italian and Mediterranean submarine cable graph, Santa Teresa Gallura represents how geography can position even smaller towns as landing points when a strait or short sea crossing calls for a direct cable route. The Strait of Bonifacio crossing enabled here adds a distinct Italy-France link to the regional network that complements the longer, deeper-water cable routes that characterize Italy's other, larger landing points.
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