Sentence examples for backbone firm from inspiring English sources
For its part, Level 3 is no longer the backbone firm of yore, moving bits efficiently among networks.
So it made sense that BBN would end up a major Internet backbone firm.
If, for example, a student living in London sends an email to a friend in Brazil, the message will hop around the network and will often travel through a backbone firm like Level 3 Communications in the USA, which describes itself as "network provider for much of the world's communications infrastructure".
The biggest blobs - those with the most connections - are the backbone firms, dwarfing the likes of Google and Amazon.
It is time for Labour MPs to demonstrate a firm backbone and back the Ashley compromise.
The sturdy chorus, much enlarged, and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, incorporating many of the collegium players (but happily not their tuning ritual), also gave firm backbone to the Missa.
Last year, two students with firm backbones used to duck into the library, go online and trade high-risk penny stocks.
At least beautiful Rafalca has a much firmer backbone than Romney.
PepsiCo was accused of behaving in an imperious manner towards franchisees, who it believed were holding back the firm's growth, while the franchisees believed they had been the backbone of the company during a succession of indifferent corporate owners.
He added: "I want Britain to have its own version of Germany's Mittelstand, a backbone of medium-sized firms which export, innovate and generate new jobs.
"I want Britain to have its own version of the German Mittelstand -- a backbone of medium-sized firms which export, innovate, generate new jobs," he told the British Chambers of Commerce.
