Taro, Solomon Islands

Taro, Solomon Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Solomon Islands (coordinates -6.7090°, 156.3959°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Solomon Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

Taro is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, stems and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Caribbean, Oceanian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian cultures. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Taro, Solomon Islands, international traffic can reach 3 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Taro, Solomon Islands in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Coral Sea Cable System (CS²) (2020) — Coral Sea Cable System (CS²) is a regional submarine cable serving 3 countries: Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Australia. With landing points at Auki, Honiara, Noro, Port Moresby, Sydney, and 1 more, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.