Capterra Glossary
Wholesale Carrier
A wholesale carrier is an organization that owns and/or operates a telecom network. Wholesale carriers sell network capacity—the amount of data that a network can handle at one time—to other telecom service providers. Then, service providers use this data for services such as Wi-Fi and data center solutions. They include independent network operators and multi-system operators. Carriers might also provide telecom networks with unlit or dark optical fiber services.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Wholesale Carrier
Small telecom networks might work with wholesale carriers so they can increase network capacity and generate more network resources. By increasing network capacity, these businesses can provide faster upload and download speeds and offer a better internet browsing experience for employees and customers.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy