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What is Cable landing station?

Definition 13.5 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 13 — Long-Haul Fibre

A cable landing station is the building where a submarine cable comes ashore and connects to terrestrial networks: it powers the cable’s undersea repeaters, terminates its fibre pairs and hands their traffic to land routes.

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