Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Piano Isole Minori | Active |
| Trapani-Kelibia 2 (KELTRA-2) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-07 through 2026-06-02 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #504 | RIPE Atlas | 140 | 79.1 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 6 | 66.4 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 131.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 6 | 71.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 88.0 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 103.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 71.1 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 81.8 ms |
Trapani is a coastal city in western Sicily, situated on a crescent-shaped peninsula between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Its geographic position at the western tip of Sicily, facing directly toward the North African coast, makes it a natural terminus for submarine cables crossing the central Mediterranean. Two submarine cables currently land at Trapani, connecting the city to both the Italian island network and the North African country of Tunisia.
The two cables landing here serve distinct corridor types. One is an intra-Italian connection forming part of the island interconnection network, while the other is a cross-Mediterranean link reaching Tunisia. Together they position Trapani as a point where domestic Italian submarine infrastructure and international Mediterranean connectivity converge.
Piano Isole Minori is an 830 km cable with a ready-for-service date of 2024, currently in draft status. This cable connects multiple Italian landing points, forming part of Italy's internal submarine network linking the mainland and its minor islands. As an intra-Italian cable, it reinforces connectivity among Italian territories across the surrounding seas.
Trapani-Kelibia 2 (KELTRA-2) is a 209 km cable that entered service in 2007, also currently listed in draft status. This cable links Trapani directly to Kelibia in Tunisia, spanning the Strait of Sicily and establishing a direct submarine path between Italy and the North African coast. At 209 km, it is a relatively short cross-Mediterranean link, reflecting the narrow maritime distance between western Sicily and the Tunisian cape.
Within Italy's network of 55 submarine cable landing points, Trapani hosts 2 cables, placing it in the same tier as Civitavecchia and Lampedusa by cable count. It sits well behind the leading Italian hubs — Mazara del Vallo with 9 cables, Genoa with 7, and Catania with 5 — but nonetheless contributes a distinct cross-Mediterranean route that few other Sicilian landing points replicate in precisely the same direction.
Trapani functions as a two-cable landing point with a dual role: it serves as a node on Italy's internal island-linking cable system through Piano Isole Minori, and as the Italian terminus of the KELTRA-2 cable connecting to Tunisia. This combination means Trapani is neither a single-purpose domestic terminal nor a large multi-cable international hub, but rather a modest junction where regional and cross-Mediterranean submarine paths meet.
Within the broader Mediterranean submarine cable graph, Trapani's direct link to Tunisia across the Strait of Sicily represents a discrete Italy–North Africa connection that complements the denser cable concentrations found at nearby Sicilian and southern Italian landing points.
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