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Verizon is looking to implement a fiber alternative to scale 5G deployments - Business Insider

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ICYMI: Verizon is considering Integrated Access Backhaul technology as a way to deliver 5G service to areas where it's prohibitively expensive to run fiber cabling:

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To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're published on Business Insider, click here. IAB will allow the telecom to link a tower that has fiber running to it with another tower that doesn't via a wireless connection, so that traffic from 5G wireless equipment installed on the nonconnected tower is routed to the fiber-connected tower.

Reducing fiber costs through the use of IAB will help Verizon increase the speed and scale of its 5G deployment. Verizon's capex in its wireline unit — which includes investments in multiuse fiber cabling — to $6.3 billion in 2018, up from $5.3 billion in 2017 and $4.5 billion in 2016, which the company attributed to 4G densification and 5G deployment preparation.

 

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