Bangaram, India

Bangaram, India: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Bangaram is a submarine cable landing point located in India, situated within the Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian Sea. As an island landing point, it forms part of a domestic connectivity corridor linking the Lakshadweep Islands with the Indian mainland. One submarine cable lands at Bangaram, connecting it to other points along the Indian coast and island chain.

The single cable serving Bangaram is the Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) system, which establishes an inter-island and island-to-mainland link entirely within Indian territory. This positions Bangaram as one of several Lakshadweep island landing points that together form a domestic submarine network rather than an intercontinental corridor.

Cables Landing at Bangaram

The Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands (KLI-SOFC) cable spans 1,989 kilometres and was scheduled for ready-for-service (RFS) in 2024, with a draft status at the time of publication. The cable connects multiple points entirely within India, linking the Lakshadweep island group with the mainland and running between various island landing points in the archipelago. As its name indicates, Kochi on the Kerala coast serves as the mainland anchor of this system, while Bangaram is one of several island endpoints along its route.

Regional Context

Within India's submarine cable infrastructure, which spans 26 landing points served by 14 cables, Bangaram is one of the less prominent nodes by cable count, ranking in the top 92 percent of Indian landing points. It shares its single-cable status with several other Lakshadweep island landing points — Agatti, Amini, Andrott, and Bitra — all of which are served exclusively by the same KLI-SOFC system. This contrasts sharply with major Indian hubs such as Mumbai, which hosts 13 cables, and Chennai, which hosts 6.

Network Role

Bangaram functions as a single-cable terminus within a domestic inter-island network. Its role is specifically to extend submarine connectivity to the Lakshadweep Islands from the Indian mainland, operating entirely within a national rather than international framework. The KLI-SOFC cable, due for service in 2024, represents the mechanism through which Bangaram and its neighbouring island landing points receive dedicated submarine link capacity.

In the broader Indian submarine cable graph, Bangaram occupies a position similar to several other small Lakshadweep landing points — each serving as a terminus node on a domestically oriented cable rather than a junction in an intercontinental system. The existence of multiple island landing points on the same cable reflects the geographic distribution of inhabited atolls in the archipelago and the resulting need for distributed connectivity across that island chain.