Practical Implications for Backhaul: A View into the National Broadband Plan [MicroBusiness]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced an aggressive agenda for implementing key aspects of the nation's first-ever National Broadband Plan (NBP). The NBP focuses in multiple places on backhaul, which is the transport of voice, video, and data traffic from a wireless carrier's or public safety network's base station (or cell site) to its mobile switching center (MSC). Backhaul appears in the NBP in both direct and nuanced ways.