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Anchor text: Sprint
Target Entity: Sprint_Nextel
Preceding Context: Because of the enormous overlap between long distance telephone networks and the Internet backbone networks, the largest long distance voice carriers such as AT&T, MCI,
Succeeding Context: and CenturyLink also own some of the largest Internet backbone networks. These backbone providers will then sell their services to ISPs. Each ISP has its own contingency backbone network, and at the very least, is equipped with an outsourced backup. These networks are intertwined and crisscrossed to create a redundant network. Many companies operate their own backbones, that are all interconnected at various IXPs around the world. In order for data to navigate through this diverse web that the backbone creates, backbone routers are needed. These backbone routers are routers that are powerful enough to handle information on the Internet backbone, and they direct data to other routers in order to send it to its final destination. Without these backbone routers, information would be lost since data would not know how to locate its end destination. The very largest providers, known as Tier 1 providers, have such comprehensive networks that they never need to purchase transit agreements from other providers. As of 2000 there were only five Internet backbone providers at the Tier 1 level in the telecommunications industry. These carriers included Cable & Wireless Worldwide, UUNet, Sprint, AT&T and Genuity. As of 2010 however, Verizon has become "the world's most connected Internet backbone." Verizon has a very large Internet footprint that reaches all over the world due to their diverse customer base which includes small and medium size businesses, large corporations, content providers, and many more. They have held this top spot for 11 of the past 12 years. Verizon also plans to increase backbone speeds in the U.S to 100 Gbit/s, the first company to do so. Some of this enhanced data speed can be seen on routes from Chicago to New York and Minneapolis to Kansas City.
Paragraph Title: Modern backbone
Source Page: Internet backbone

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