Landing Point · FR France
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Calvi-St. Florent | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-26 through 2026-05-30 — 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 | 46.6 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 57.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 114.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 70.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 76.4 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 89.9 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 264.0 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 161.3 ms |
St. Florent is a coastal location in France that serves as a submarine cable landing point. One submarine cable makes landfall here, connecting St. Florent to the broader submarine cable infrastructure of the French island of Corsica. The cable that lands at St. Florent operates entirely within France, linking two points on the island of Corsica and enabling intra-island connectivity.
The single cable landing at St. Florent, the Calvi-St. Florent system, represents a short regional link rather than an intercontinental corridor. With a length of 64 km, it provides a direct submarine connection between two Corsican coastal communities, contributing to the island's internal telecommunications network.
Calvi-St. Florent is a 64 km submarine cable that reached ready-for-service status in 1997, with a draft designation. The cable connects St. Florent to Calvi, with both endpoints located in France on the island of Corsica. As an entirely domestic cable, it links two Corsican landing points without extending to the French mainland or any foreign territory.
France hosts 34 submarine cables across 27 landing points, with Marseille standing as the country's most connected hub at 16 cables. St. Florent, with one cable, sits alongside Bastia and Bonifacio as single-cable landing points in France, and shares Corsica's submarine cable landscape with the two-cable landing point of Ajaccio. St. Florent thus represents one of the more modestly connected landing points within the French national submarine cable network.
St. Florent functions as a single-cable terminus, serving as one end of the short intra-Corsican Calvi-St. Florent link. Rather than providing access to international or intercontinental routes, its role is confined to enabling a direct submarine path between two locations on the same island. This positions St. Florent as a local connectivity node rather than a transit hub within the wider French or European submarine cable graph.
Within the submarine cable geography of Corsica, the presence of landing points at St. Florent, Calvi, Ajaccio, Bastia, and Bonifacio illustrates how island territories often develop distributed coastal landing infrastructure to serve different communities. St. Florent's place in this network underscores the role that short, intra-island submarine cables play in supplementing terrestrial links across challenging coastal and mountainous terrain.
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