Landing Point · ES Spain
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| GC-LNZ-FU Ring | Planned |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-20 through 2026-06-03 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 5 | 53.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 99.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 4 | 90.1 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 3 | 247.1 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 3 | 185.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 117.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 73.5 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 62.8 ms |
| #1015932 own probe | Odessa UA | 1 | 79.7 ms |
Telde is a municipality located on the eastern coast of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, an archipelago of Spain situated in the Atlantic Ocean. As a coastal settlement on one of the larger Canary Islands, Telde forms part of the broader submarine cable geography of insular Spain. One submarine cable is planned to land at Telde, connecting it to the regional network infrastructure that serves the Canary Islands and the surrounding Spanish territories.
The single cable scheduled to land at Telde is the GC-LNZ-FU Ring, a ring system that links Gran Canaria with other points within Spain. The intra-Spanish nature of this cable places Telde within a regional, inter-island connectivity corridor rather than an intercontinental one, serving the internal communications needs of the Canary Islands and their connections to the broader Spanish cable network.
The GC-LNZ-FU Ring is a submarine cable system with a total length of 553 km, scheduled for ready-for-service (RFS) in 2028 and currently at draft status. As its name suggests, the cable operates as a ring configuration, with all endpoints located within Spain. The system connects Gran Canaria — where Telde serves as a landing point — to other Spanish locations, providing intra-national, inter-island connectivity within the Canary Islands corridor. No additional technical specifications beyond the length and projected RFS year are available at this time.
Within Spain's submarine cable landscape, which encompasses 34 cables across 46 landing points, Telde ranks among the smaller nodes, hosting a single cable and placing it in the top 56% of Spanish landing points by cable count. Several other Spanish landing points, including Alta Vista and Granadilla de Abona in the Canary Islands as well as Barcelona, Bilbao, Santa Cruz de La Palma, and Valencia on the mainland and other islands, each host three cables, making them comparatively more active hubs in the national submarine cable network. Telde's role is more focused and localised by comparison.
Telde functions as a single-cable terminus within the Canary Islands submarine cable system, serving the intra-Spanish, inter-island ring formed by the GC-LNZ-FU Ring. Rather than anchoring intercontinental traffic, Telde's position on Gran Canaria makes it a node within a closed regional loop designed to ensure connectivity among the islands and their Spanish counterparts. As a draft-status, future-oriented landing point with a projected 2028 RFS, Telde represents a planned expansion of submarine cable infrastructure on Gran Canaria's eastern coast.
Within the broader Spanish submarine cable graph, the addition of Telde as a landing point on Gran Canaria contributes to the redundancy and reach of inter-island connectivity in the Atlantic Canary Islands corridor, complementing the existing nodes at Alta Vista and Granadilla de Abona on the same archipelago.
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