Landing Point · IN India
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| FALCON | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-30 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 | 203.3 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 238.2 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 227.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 222.6 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 204.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 222.5 ms |
Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) is the capital of Kerala state in southwestern India, at coordinates 8.798144°N, 76.970235°E on the Arabian Sea coast. For submarine cable infrastructure, Trivandrum is one of the southern-Indian landing points complementing the larger Mumbai (north Arabian Sea coast) and Chennai (east Bay of Bengal coast) hubs. The location is part of the FALCON cable system, a major Middle East-India cable routing through the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf.
Trivandrum's position near India's southern tip puts it geographically close to the Sri Lanka-Maldives cable corridor and provides an alternative landing site to Mumbai for cables routing between India and the Middle East. As Kerala's capital and a recognised IT hub (the city hosts Technopark, India's first IT park), the local fibre infrastructure feeds into a substantial regional data centre and software services market.
FALCON is a 10,300 km submarine cable in service since 2006, owned by FLAG. From Trivandrum it reaches Bahrain, Egypt (Suez), India (Mumbai), Iran (Bandar Abbas, Chabahar), Iraq (Al Faw), Kuwait, Maldives, Oman (Al Seeb, Khasab), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Al Khobar, Jeddah), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Sudan, UAE (Dubai), and Yemen (Al Ghaydah, Al Hudaydah). FALCON has 19 landing points making it one of the most extensively-landed cables in the Middle East-India region.
Trivandrum is a single-cable landing point in the GeoCables dataset, which means India's connectivity routed through Trivandrum specifically depends on FALCON. Redundancy at the national level exists through Mumbai's multiple cables (FLAG cables, EIG, IMEWE, SeaMeWe-3/4/5/6, Project Waterworth) and Chennai's eastward cables — so traffic that nominally routes via Trivandrum can be rerouted through Mumbai or Chennai during FALCON outages.
The structural value of Trivandrum as a landing site is partly geographic redundancy for Mumbai: a major incident affecting Mumbai's submarine cable cluster does not directly affect FALCON's Trivandrum landing, providing some Indian national-level diversity. The 19-landing FALCON cable itself provides operator-level path diversity through alternative onward routes if any single segment is disrupted.
The Trivandrum submarine cable landing sits at 8.798144°N, 76.970235°E (8°47'53"N, 76°58'13"E), on the Arabian Sea coast of Kerala state in southwestern India. The Trivandrum coast offers direct cable approach corridors westward toward the Arabian Peninsula without intervening Indian peninsular shadowing.
One submarine cable lands at Trivandrum in the GeoCables dataset: FALCON (10,300 km, RFS 2006, FLAG), reaching 19 landings across the Middle East, India, and East Africa region.
Trivandrum cable landing is at 8.798144°N, 76.970235°E (8°47'53"N, 76°58'13"E), on the Arabian Sea coast of Kerala state, southwestern India.
Through FALCON, Trivandrum connects India to Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, UAE, and Yemen.
FALCON, the only cable landing at Trivandrum, has been in service since 2006.
FALCON is operated by FLAG (Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe).
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