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Balluta Bay, Malta

Landing Point · MT Malta

1 Connected Cables 35.9341°N 14.3800°E Malta
1
Connected Cables
MT
Country
35.93°
Latitude
14.38°
Longitude
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Connected Cables

Cable Length RFS Status
Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) 260 km 2004 Active

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18
measurements
7
probes
24
days monitored
101.6
ms avg RTT
0
anomalies

RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-11 through 2026-05-05 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.

Measurement sources

Probe Location Samples Avg Min–Max Last seen
#1014589 own probe Almaty KZ 4 139.4 ms 130.8–151.2 2026-05-05
#1014597 own probe Tbilisi GE 4 92.8 ms 86.7–101.4 2026-05-05
#1014969 own probe Jerusalem IL 4 93.1 ms 90.8–99.0 2026-05-05
#1014473 own probe Minsk BY 3 76.6 ms 75.4–78.6 2026-05-05
#1015313 own probe Sevastopol UA 1 136.3 ms 136.3–136.3 2026-04-20
#1015523 own probe Moscow RU 1 83.7 ms 83.7–83.7 2026-05-05
#1015563 own probe Saint Petersburg RU 1 77.6 ms 77.6–77.6 2026-05-05

About Balluta Bay, Malta

Balluta Bay, Malta is a submarine cable landing point in Malta (coordinates 35.9341°, 14.3800°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Malta's international connectivity infrastructure.

Balluta Bay, is a bay on the northeast coast of Malta within St. Julian's. It is a popular recreation spot used for swimming, diving, and water sports, with a triangular pjazza surrounded by cafés and shaded by Judas trees. Its skyline is dominated by the neo-gothic Carmelite Parish Church and the Art Nouveau Balluta Buildings, which are apartment buildings on the eastern shore, as well as a cluster of terraced townhouses in the local variant of Georgian-style architecture. The south shore of Balluta Bay features Le Méridien St. Julian's Hotel, built on the grounds surrounding the 18th-century Villa Cassar Torregiani. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

CableRFSLengthOwners
Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS)2004260 kmEpic

Connectivity profile

From Balluta Bay, Malta, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Italy. 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 Balluta Bay, Malta 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

  • Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) (2004) — Epic Malta-Sicily Cable System (EMSCS) is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Malta and Italy. Landing at Balluta Bay, Catania, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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

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Landing Point

  • CountryMT Malta
  • Coordinates35.9341°N 14.3800°E
  • Connected Cables1

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