Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Cargo or freight that is transported on the return trip of a journey.
  • noun The transmission of video or audio signals in an unedited format directly to a network or studio, usually by satellite.
  • noun The material so transmitted.
  • noun The part of a telecommunications network that connects the main body of the network with smaller subnetworks.
  • transitive verb To transmit (traffic on a telecommunications network) from the main network to smaller subnetworks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.
  • noun transport A return trip after delivery of cargo.
  • noun travel travel to a destination via a further point than the destination. (higher intermediate point)

Etymologies

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back +‎ haul

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Examples

  • Slattery said instead of building fibre-to-the-home in cities, where residents already had access to two cable networks and ADSL2+ infrastructure, the NBN project should focus on what he called the backhaul and distribution networks to locations such as schools and hospitals.

    ZDNet Australia Renai LeMay 2010

  • Slattery said instead of building fibre-to-the-home in cities, where residents already had access to two cable networks and ADSL2+ infrastructure, the NBN project should focus on what he called the backhaul and distribution networks to locations such as schools and hospitals.

    ZDNet Australia Renai LeMay 2010

  • Slattery said instead of building fibre-to-the-home in cities, where residents already had access to two cable networks and ADSL2+ infrastructure, the NBN project should focus on what he called the backhaul and distribution networks to locations such as schools and hospitals.

    ZDNet Australia Renai LeMay 2010

  • Slattery said instead of building fibre-to-the-home in cities, where residents already had access to two cable networks and ADSL2+ infrastructure, the NBN project should focus on what he called the backhaul and distribution networks to locations such as schools and hospitals.

    ZDNet Australia Renai LeMay 2010

  • And if the backhaul is spaced on every 3-4 nodes you get 20 Mbps mobile U/D trough the grid.

    Our Readers Take on the LTE v. WiMAX Debate 2009

  • Niether of these make up the several orders of magnitude we are short in backhaul bandwidth to provide unlimited flaterate customer bandwidth to support P2P as a universal solution.

    Austin Bandwidth Hog Claims Time Warner Cut Him Off 2009

  • What they are looking for with backhaul is still fairly minimal with 50 Mbps circuits.

    For Cablevision Division, Business Services Mean Big Money 2009

  • Even if the connection is between two users on your network (not a user and another who is on the Internet) you still need the backhaul from the Tower to get on your network (think of it as going down your driveway to get to the street).

    Variable Pricing Coming to Mobile Broadband? 2009

  • The first has been alternate access companies that are building businesses and networks around shared tenant or multi-carrier backhaul from the site.

    The GigaOM Interview: Cole Brodman, CTO, T-Mobile USA 2009

  • Also, keep in mind that backhaul is already often a shared facility.

    Reminder: You Can’t Stockpile Broadband 2009

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