3 submarine cable landing points in Réunion. View coordinates, connected cables, and detailed location info.
Réunion has three submarine cable landing points located in Le Port, Saint Paul, and Sainte Marie. These landing points connect the island to four submarine cables, facilitating international internet connectivity.
The longest cable serving Réunion is the SAFE cable, which has been in service since 2002 and spans 13,500 kilometers. It connects Réunion to India, Malaysia, Mauritius, and South Africa. The newest cable is the METISS, which became ready for service in 2021, stretching 3,200 kilometers and linking Réunion to Madagascar, Mauritius, and South Africa. Other operational cables include the LION cable, in service since 2009, which is 1,060 kilometers long and connects Réunion to Madagascar and Mauritius. The ReuNION cable is listed as a route but its operational status and other details remain unspecified.
The main internet service providers in Réunion by user base are Reunicable SAS, SFR Reunion (SRR), Canal + Telecom SAS, Orange, and TELCO OI SAS. The country is classified as vulnerable in terms of network resilience, as it relies on a limited number of cables and landing stations. No outages have been recorded by GeoCables in the past 90 days.
Every cable that lands in this country, with live latency on its page.
Cables landing here whose break would hurt this country most, by our cable graph.
No single cable break would cut this country off: alternatives exist for every cable.
| Name | Connected Cables |
|---|---|
| Le Port, Réunion › | 1 |
| Saint Paul, Réunion › | 2 |
| Sainte Marie, Réunion › | 1 |
Internet status by provider and the resilience of the country's cable connectivity.
Réunion has 4 submarine cables and 3 landing points in the GeoCables database. The ones with the most landing points here are Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION), Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS), ReuNION.
The oldest cable in service is SAFE (2002), the newest is Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) (2021). Planned: ReuNION (2028).
By our cable graph no single break cuts Réunion off. The largest effect comes from SAFE: up to plus 38.5 ms towards Malaysia. We count paths and milliseconds, not capacity.
At the last check (2026-11-04 10:11 UTC) the internet in Réunion was working normally. Providers and history