Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| ROMSAR 2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-22 through 2026-05-23 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 127.4 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 5 | 51.6 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 5 | 70.7 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 91.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 67.2 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 95.9 ms |
Sassari is the second-largest city in Sardinia, Italy's autonomous island region in the western Mediterranean. As an island location, Sardinia depends on submarine cable infrastructure to maintain connectivity with the Italian mainland and beyond, and Sassari serves as one of the landing points on the island hosting this infrastructure. One submarine cable currently lands at Sassari, connecting it within an Italian domestic cable corridor.
The single cable landing at Sassari is ROMSAR 2, a system whose endpoints are confined to Italy, making this a domestic inter-island or coastal link rather than an intercontinental connection. This positions Sassari as a focused, single-cable terminus serving a specific connectivity corridor within Italian waters.
ROMSAR 2 is the sole submarine cable landing at Sassari. It reached ready-for-service status in 1996 and remains listed in draft status. The cable connects Italian endpoints exclusively, linking Sassari to other points within Italy. No length or additional technical specifications are available for this system.
Within Italy's submarine cable landscape, which spans 37 cables across 55 landing points, Sassari hosts a single cable and ranks in the top 80 percent of Italian landing points by cable count. Major Italian landing points such as Mazara del Vallo (9 cables), Genoa (7 cables), and Catania (5 cables) host considerably larger concentrations of submarine cable infrastructure, while Sassari is more comparable in scale to Civitavecchia and Lampedusa, each of which also hosts a small number of cables. Sassari's role is correspondingly more specialized than those larger hubs.
Sassari functions as a single-cable terminus within Italy's domestic submarine cable network. The ROMSAR 2 cable, connecting Italian endpoints exclusively, positions Sassari as a node supporting intra-Italian connectivity, most likely serving the link between Sardinia and the Italian mainland. This domestic orientation distinguishes Sassari from Italy's larger landing points, which serve international and intercontinental routes.
In the broader Italian submarine cable graph, Sassari represents a localized point of presence that contributes to the island connectivity of Sardinia. While it does not function as a multi-cable hub, its inclusion among Italy's 55 landing points reflects the distributed nature of submarine cable infrastructure required to serve the country's island regions.
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