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Cable landing point

Alright kiddo, let me explain cable landing point to you like you're 5 years old.

Have you ever seen a really long wire or rope that connects two things together? It's usually used to help pull or lift something that's too heavy to move by hand. Well, imagine that wire is really, really long like thousands of miles long! That's what a submarine cable is. It's a wire that stretches across the bottom of the ocean to connect different countries and continents.

Now, a cable landing point is where that long submarine cable meets the land. It's like the cables are coming ashore to say "hello" to the land. When the cable gets to the cable landing point, it needs to be connected to something so that information can travel through it.

That's where things get a bit complicated. At the cable landing point, special equipment is used to connect the submarine cable to a land-based network. This equipment can be things like cables, routers, switches, and other technical stuff that help the information get to where it needs to go.

So remember, a cable landing point is where the submarine cable meets the land and has all the equipment to help the information travel to its destination.
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