Landing Point · MG Madagascar
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) | Active |
| Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-23 through 2026-06-22 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 180.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 232.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 174.0 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 277.3 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 361.7 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 206.2 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 1 | 190.9 ms |
| #1015984 own probe | Balancer IL | 1 | 200.6 ms |
Toliara is a city on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, serving as the capital of the Atsimo-Andrefana region and located approximately 936 kilometres southwest of the national capital Antananarivo. As a submarine cable landing point, Toliara connects Madagascar to the broader East African coastal corridor, with two international submarine cables making landfall here: the Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) and the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1).
Both cables landing at Toliara operate along the East African seaboard, linking Madagascar to a set of countries that includes Djibouti, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, and South Africa. Together, they position Toliara as a point of access to one of the most active submarine cable corridors on the African continent, spanning connections from the Horn of Africa southward to South Africa and incorporating island territories such as the Comoros.
Eastern Africa Submarine System (EASSy) is a 10,500-kilometre cable that entered service in 2010. In addition to Toliara, EASSy lands in Comoros, Djibouti, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, and South Africa. The system runs along the eastern coast of Africa, forming one of the earlier international submarine cable connections to serve Madagascar's southwestern coastline.
Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE 1) is a 4,854-kilometre cable that entered service in 2021. It lands in Djibouti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Somalia, and South Africa, in addition to Toliara. As a more recently deployed system, DARE 1 supplements the connectivity that EASSy established over a decade earlier, providing an additional cable path along a broadly similar East African coastal route.
Within Madagascar, Toliara shares its two-cable status only with Mahajanga, making the pair the most connected landing points in the country by cable count. Fort Dauphin and Toamasina each host a single cable. Toliara is therefore among the better-served landing points in Madagascar's four-site submarine cable infrastructure.
Toliara functions as a two-cable landing point, offering Madagascar's southwestern coast direct submarine connectivity to multiple East African nations. The combination of EASSy and DARE 1 means that Toliara is served by cables commissioned more than a decade apart, providing path diversity within the same regional corridor stretching from Djibouti in the north to South Africa in the south.
Within the broader East African submarine cable graph, Toliara represents one of Madagascar's primary points of engagement with the continental coastal network, connecting the island nation to a corridor that encompasses both the Horn of Africa and the southernmost tip of the African mainland.
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