Landing Point · IT Italy
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Piano Isole Minori | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-02 through 2026-05-19 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 3 | 56.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 144.3 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 3 | 63.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 3 | 71.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 63.9 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 96.9 ms |
Alicudi Porto is a small port settlement on Alicudi, the westernmost of the Aeolian Islands, an archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily. As an island location, Alicudi Porto has no terrestrial route for international data traffic — all connectivity depends entirely on submarine cable infrastructure reaching the island directly.
International internet traffic arrives at Alicudi Porto through a single submarine cable, the Piano Isole Minori, which connects the island to a series of other small Italian islands. Rather than linking Alicudi Porto to a major international hub, this cable operates as an intra-national system, knitting together Italy's minor island communities through a shared undersea connection.
The Piano Isole Minori cable spans 830 km and reached ready-for-service status in 2024, currently listed in draft status. It connects Alicudi Porto to five other Italian island landing points: Cala d'Oliva, Canneto, Capraia Isola, Carloforte, and Ditella. All landing points on this cable are located within Italy, making it a domestic inter-island system rather than an international submarine link. Outbound international traffic from Alicudi Porto routes onward through the Italian mainland network after travelling along this cable.
Italy hosts 23 submarine cables across 49 landing points, with an average cable length of 2,610 km and its first cable in service since 1996. Alicudi Porto, served by a single short domestic cable, sits at the modest end of this national infrastructure picture. Major Italian landing points such as Mazara del Vallo (8 cables), Genoa (6 cables), and Catania (3 cables) carry the weight of Italy's international submarine traffic. Alicudi Porto's role is narrower: it is one of several minor island terminuses connected through the Piano Isole Minori system, designed specifically to extend reliable connectivity to remote island communities rather than to carry intercontinental traffic.
Because Alicudi Porto is served by a single submarine cable, all of its external internet traffic flows through the Piano Isole Minori. Any outage on this cable would affect every external service accessible from the island. The cable's routing — connecting only Italian island landing points — means that traffic destined for international destinations must pass through the wider Italian national network before reaching international exchange points or cables at hubs such as Mazara del Vallo or Genoa.
Understanding Alicudi Porto's position in Italy's submarine cable map illustrates a broader pattern in island connectivity: while major coastal cities benefit from multiple redundant international cables, small and remote island communities often depend on a single domestic link, leaving their connectivity tied to the health of one undersea route.
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