Trivandrum, India

Trivandrum, India is a submarine cable landing point in India (coordinates 8.7981°, 76.9702°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in India's international connectivity infrastructure.

Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 km2, making it the largest and most populous city in Kerala. The larger Thiruvananthapuram metropolitan area has over 1.7 million inhabitants within an area of 543 km2. Thiruvananthapuram is one of the few cities in India that functions as a capital city, a heritage city, a maritime city, an information technology city, a space research city, a defence city, an automotive tech city, a bioscience city, a tourism city, and a city known for its research and development institutions. It is also among the few cities in the world where both an international airport and an international seaport are located within the city in close proximity to the city center. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Trivandrum, India, international traffic can reach 14 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman and 6 more. 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 Trivandrum, India 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

• FALCON (2006) — Every submarine cable has an owner. Most have had two. FALCON has survived three bankruptcies — and is still carrying traffic across fourteen countries, from Egypt to Sri Lanka, through some of the most politically complex waters on Earth. The Cable That Outlived Its Owners FALCON stands for FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network. Read more →

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