Backhaul

Backhaul may refer to:

Backhaul, in telecommunications, concerned with transporting traffic between distributed sites (typically access points) and more centralised points of presence. In a hierarchical telecommunication network the backhaul portion of the network comprises the intermediate links between the core or backbone of the network and the small subnetworks
Backhaul, in the broadcast TV industry, the point-to-point transmission, usually by satellite, of a feed from a remote location to the studio. In the context of Broadcasting, backhaul refers to uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or Radio

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To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.
The shipment of materiel to or through an area from which the materiel had previously been shipped<ref name="FM5515">US FM 55-15 TRANSPORTATION REFERENCE DATA; 9 June 1886</ref>.

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