carrier's carrier Last modified: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
A carrier's carrier is a telecommunications industry business model where a carrier sells or leases bandwidth on its own infrastructure to another telecom carrier for reselling to their own customers. There are two applications for carrier's carrier; the customer carrier is an Internet service provider (ISP), or the customer carrier is an MPLS VPN provider. Also called carrier-of-carriers.
ISP-Planet Founded in April, 1999 by Ted Stevenson as part of internet.com's xSP Channel, ISP-Planet was designed from the start to address the concerns of Internet Service Providers. ISP-Planet covers the main areas of interest for Internet Service Providers such as equipment, perspectives, Fixed wireless, industry news & trends, market research, news, and more. Open Networks Today Networking news moves at a fast pace, and Open Networks Today lets you keep up with it. Open Networks Today offers its readers the ability to control how news is presented through customizing content filters, discussions, and news feed links. Telephony Online: A carrier's carrier These relationships are as varied as the IXC customers. IXCs are not a monolithic customer segment to be dealt with using a cookie cutter approach. They represent a wide range of needs driven by their marketing strategies, internal resources, capital funding and customer requirements. Telephony Online: Not just a carrier's carrier The fastest way to get media attention in the telecommunications business these days is to offer cheap Internet telephony rates. It worked for Denver-based Qwest Communications Corp., when it announced plans to roll out nationwide 7.5 cents-per-minute long-distance calling over its Internet protocol-based, fiber optic network in December 1997.

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bandwidth base station Carrier Ethernet Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection digital loop carrier ILEC ISP leased line MPLS SONET T-1 carrier T-3 carrier VPN

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