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Crown Castle: America's Communications Infrastructure

Connecting cities and communities to essential data, technology, and wireless service.

About Crown Castle

Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure. They don't sell wireless services; they own, operate, and lease the essential assets that make mobile communication possible. With a portfolio of over 40,000 cell towers, 120,000 small cell nodes, and 85,000 route miles of fiber, Crown Castle builds the foundation that the country's largest wireless carriers rely on to power today's mobile world and tomorrow's 5G future.

Core Infrastructure Assets

Cell Towers: The Backbone of Wireless Coverage

Crown Castle's nationwide portfolio of macro cell towers provides the broad, reliable coverage that wireless networks require. By leasing space on this existing infrastructure, carriers can deploy their services to customers faster and more efficiently.

Key Features:
  • Nationwide Portfolio: Over 40,000 towers providing coverage in every major U.S. market.
  • Multi-Tenant Model: Towers are designed to support equipment from multiple wireless carriers simultaneously.
  • Strategic Locations: Infrastructure is positioned to maximize coverage and minimize dead zones.
  • End-to-End Services: Includes site acquisition, zoning, permitting, and construction.
Benefits for Networks:
  • Accelerate speed to market for new network rollouts.
  • Reduce the capital expense of building proprietary towers.
  • Achieve broad, predictable wireless coverage.
  • Streamline the network deployment process.

Small Cells: The Foundation for 5G

To meet the massive data capacity demands of 5G, networks require densification. Crown Castle's small cells are low-powered antennas that supplement the macro tower network, increasing speed and capacity in targeted, high-traffic locations.

Key Features:
  • Unmatched Scale: Approximately 120,000 small cells on-air or under contract.
  • Dense Metro Presence: Deployed in the top U.S. markets where data demand is highest.
  • Fiber-Connected: Integrated with Crown Castle's extensive metro fiber for reliable backhaul.
  • Turnkey Solution: A single point of contact for design, deployment, and operation.
Benefits for Networks:
  • Dramatically increase network capacity and data speeds.
  • Surgically add coverage in dense urban canyons, stadiums, and venues.
  • Lay the groundwork for advanced 5G use cases.
  • Provide a seamless, high-quality user experience.

Fiber Solutions: Connecting the Wireless Edge

High-capacity fiber is the critical link that connects towers and small cells to the core network. Crown Castle's dense metro fiber provides the essential backhaul for wireless traffic and offers diverse, high-bandwidth connectivity for enterprises.

Key Features:
  • Massive Footprint: 85,000 route miles of high-strand-count fiber.
  • Metro Concentration: Fiber is strategically located in the top 25 most populous U.S. markets.
  • Diverse Routes: Offers unique network paths for building resilient, redundant enterprise WANs.
  • Dark & Lit Services: Provides both dark fiber leases and managed, lit fiber connectivity.
Benefits for Networks:
  • Enable the high-throughput, low-latency demands of 5G.
  • Connect wireless assets to the core internet backbone reliably.
  • Support large-scale enterprise cloud and data center strategies.
  • Provide a scalable foundation for future network growth.

Leveraging the Nation's Leading Infrastructure

KDE Technology partners with carriers who build their world-class networks on Crown Castle's foundation. Let us connect your business to the power and reliability of this underlying infrastructure.

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