Landing Point · FR France
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Îles d'Hyères Cable | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-13 through 2026-05-17 — 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 | 4 | 46.5 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 74.7 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 78.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 57.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 104.9 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 80.4 ms |
La Tour Fondue is a coastal location in France that serves as a submarine cable landing point. Situated on the French mainland, it connects to the Îles d'Hyères archipelago by way of a single submarine cable operating entirely within French territory. As the sole cable landing here links two parts of France rather than crossing international borders, La Tour Fondue supports an intra-national, inter-island corridor rather than an intercontinental or cross-border route.
One submarine cable lands at La Tour Fondue. Its function is to maintain connectivity between the French mainland and the island group it serves, forming a domestic link within France's broader submarine cable network.
The Îles d'Hyères Cable is the sole submarine cable landing at La Tour Fondue. Spanning 45 kilometres, this cable reached ready-for-service status in 1996. Both endpoints of the cable are located within France, making it a purely domestic connection. The cable links La Tour Fondue on the French mainland to the Îles d'Hyères, the island group lying off the coast of the Var department in southeastern France. With a length of just 45 kilometres, it is a short-haul system designed to serve the connectivity needs of that island chain rather than to carry long-distance international traffic.
Within France's submarine cable landscape, which spans 24 cables across 19 landing points, La Tour Fondue hosts a single cable and ranks within the top 84 percent of French landing points by cable count. Marseille, by contrast, serves as France's dominant submarine cable hub with 13 cables, while Cayeux-sur-Mer and Lannion each host two. La Tour Fondue shares its single-cable status with Ajaccio, Bastia, and Calvi, all of which are island or coastal landing points serving more localised connectivity functions.
La Tour Fondue functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, and its role is defined by the domestic corridor it supports. The Îles d'Hyères Cable connects the French mainland directly to the island group of the same name, enabling telecommunications continuity between those islands and the continental French network. The cable's short length and entirely domestic routing distinguish La Tour Fondue from the internationally oriented landing points found elsewhere along the French coast.
Within the regional submarine cable graph, La Tour Fondue represents a category of landing point dedicated to intra-national island connectivity, complementing the larger international hubs that anchor France's global submarine cable presence.
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