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Competitive Access Provider

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(networking)Competitive Access Provider - (CAP, or "Bypass Carrier") A company which provides network links between the customer and the IntereXchange Carrier or even directly to the Internet Service Provider. CAPs operate private networks independent of Local Exchange Carriers.

["Getting Connected The Internet at 56k and Up", Kevin Dowd, First Edition, p. 49, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., June 1996, ISBN 1-56592-154-2 (US), ISBN 1-56592-203-4 (international)].


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2 million miles in 2003--an annual compound growth rate of more than 61%; * Competitive access providers (CAPs) increased fiber deployment by 1.
We offer colocation, data center and DIA services with cross connection to most wireless providers, AT&T and major Competitive Access Providers.
If business users once again allow disproportionate rates to be charges to them in a collocation connection charge rate setting, and subsequently passed through to them by the competitive access provider, they are accepting costs they should not accept.
 
 
 
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