 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1
 ·T-Mobile US
| reply to jvanbrecht
Re: Backhaul? said by jvanbrecht:There is no need to tap into FIOS anything. Verizon owns much of the US backbone in the first place, that being the merger/purchase of MCI, which used to be MCI Worldcom which was UUNET before that. Verizon currently operates the largest backbone in the US, so there is no real limitation for them. True, but a backbone doesn't really line up well with cellular cells. You need a network which branches out to get to the cell sites. That's the hard part. I doubt anyone believes that ATT has a shortage of backbone bandwidth. The problem has always been the last mile(s) to the cell site.
Traditionally, they'd run T-1's from their network backbone waaayyy out to the cell site (or use microwaves). FIOS gives VZ the ability to very cheaply speed up their cell sites in metro areas on that last mile.
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 elbm
join:2000-08-03
Reisterstown, MD
2 edits | We (VZ core) have been doing a ton off work for VZW in Maryland bringing fiber to every tower, equipping each site with Fuji FW 4100's sonet muxes and setting them up for GigE over fiber back-haul. The push is to have most done and up by the end of the year. We also have a big project coming up to do some thing similar for ATT, non-sonet, in the near future but in this area VZW is way ahead.
Fios does not have the redundancy and rubustness for carrier grade transport. |
