Toamasina, Madagascar

Toamasina, Madagascar is a submarine cable landing point in Madagascar (coordinates -18.1462°, 49.4003°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Madagascar's international connectivity infrastructure.

Toamasina, meaning "like salt" or "salty", unofficially and in French Tamatave or in the past as Port aux prunes, is the capital of the Atsinanana region on the east coast of Madagascar on the Indian Ocean. The city is the chief seaport of the country, situated 215 km (134 mi) northeast of its capital and largest city Antananarivo. In 2018 Toamasina had a population of 325,857. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Toamasina, Madagascar, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Mauritius, Réunion. 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 Toamasina, Madagascar 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

• Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) (2009) — Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Réunion, Mauritius, Madagascar. Its 3 landing points at Sainte Marie, Terre Rouge, Toamasina bridge the networks of Indian Ocean, East Africa, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →

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