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FiberTower Corporation is a backhaul and access transport
provider focused primarily on the wireless carrier market.
With its extensive spectrum footprint in 24 GHz and 39 GHz
bands, carrier-class microwave and fiber networks in 13 major
markets, customer commitments from six of the leading cellular
carriers, and partnerships with the largest tower operators
in the U.S, FiberTower is considered to be the leading alternative
carrier for wireless backhaul.
FiberTower was formed in 2000 to address
the weakest link in rapidly evolving wireless networks - backhaul.
Backhaul is defined as the all-important transport piece between
a carrier’s cell site (base station at the cell tower)
and its switching facility.
Due to the rollout of mobile broadband access
networks, bandwidth demand in the wireless network is rising
exponentially, putting considerable strain on a decades-old
copper infrastructure designed to backhaul voice traffic.
Today, with the advent of wireless data, carriers seek scalable,
flexible and cost-effective backhaul alternatives that will
support their 3G and 4G broadband initiatives. Such alternatives,
including microwave and fiber, are the new evolution in wireless
backhaul.
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