Who are they using for mobile backhaul? Tellabs or ALU? I believe they are a cisco shop but I didn't think cisco had a good mobile backhaul story.
T-Mob says they have signed backhaul agreements with:
<ul class="noindent"> <li>Bright House Networks — Tampa and Orlando. T-Mobile has signed an agreement with Bright House Networks to utilize Bright House Networks’ extensive fiber distribution plant to provide backhaul in central Florida.</li> <li>FPL FiberNet — South Florida. T-Mobile will now announce its relationship with FPL FiberNet as its backhaul carrier in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in South Florida.</li> <li>IP Networks — San Francisco. T-Mobile has signed an agreement with IP Networks to provide Ethernet backhaul services in the greater San Francisco area. IP Networks has built and operates an extensive Ethernet Over Fiber telecommunications system primarily on the utility infrastructure of Pacific Gas and Electric Company. With 1,060 cell sites, the contract with IP Networks is reported to be among the largest all-fiber backhaul agreements in the country.</li> <li>Zayo Bandwidth — Philadelphia and Memphis. Zayo Bandwidth is a provider of high-capacity, fiber-based bandwidth services. T-Mobile’s agreement with Zayo covers the Philadelphia and Memphis metropolitan areas, and more than 450 unique sites. The agreement with Zayo in Philadelphia was among the first all-fiber backhaul agreements entered into by T-Mobile.</li> </ul> <div> </div> <div>This dates to 2008, so they clearly need to sign some more fiber providers. They haven't said yet vis-a-vis equipment providers, will do some more digging.</div> <div> </div> <div>DJ</div>
Dan,
Who are they using for mobile backhaul? Tellabs or ALU? I believe they are a cisco shop but I didn't think cisco had a good mobile backhaul story.
-desi