Landing Point · FR France
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Ruppione-Isolella | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-18 through 2026-05-10 — 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 | 2 | 46.2 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 107.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 70.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 76.5 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 80.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 57.8 ms |
Ruppione is a submarine cable landing point located in France. As a coastal site, it forms part of France's broader submarine cable infrastructure, which spans 19 landing points across the country. One submarine cable lands at Ruppione, connecting it to another point within French territory. The cable it hosts forms a short intra-national link rather than an intercontinental or interregional connection.
The single cable landing at Ruppione operates entirely within France, making this landing point a domestic connectivity node. Its role is defined by short-distance, intra-French submarine routing rather than long-haul international transmission. Given the geography of France's coastal territories — including the island of Corsica — such short submarine links serve an important function in connecting geographically separated parts of French territory across the sea.
The Ruppione-Isolella cable is the sole submarine cable landing at this location. With a length of 62 km, it is a short domestic cable connecting two points both located within France. The cable reached ready-for-service status in 2007 and is currently listed with draft status. Its limited length and intra-French routing distinguish it from the longer international cables that characterize many other French landing points.
Among France's 19 submarine cable landing points, Ruppione hosts one cable, placing it alongside Ajaccio, Bastia, and Calvi — all of which also host a single cable — and well behind Marseille, which serves as France's dominant hub with 13 cables. Cayeux-sur-Mer and Lannion each host two cables, representing a modest step above single-cable sites like Ruppione. Within France's submarine cable landscape, Ruppione represents one of the smaller, more specialized landing points.
Ruppione functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. The Ruppione-Isolella cable it hosts spans just 62 km, linking two French locations across a short submarine corridor. This type of intra-national routing is characteristic of several Corsican and continental French landing points, where submarine cables bridge the sea gap between the French mainland and its Mediterranean island territories, or between points along the same coastline.
In the broader French submarine cable graph, Ruppione occupies a narrow but defined position: it contributes domestic submarine connectivity over a short route, complementing the longer international cables that enter France through larger hubs such as Marseille. Its presence alongside similar single-cable sites in the region reflects the distributed nature of France's submarine cable network across both mainland and island geographies.
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