Joe works as an IT administrator in an organization and has recently set up a cloud computing service for the organizati

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Joe works as an IT administrator in an organization and has recently set up a cloud computing service for the organization. To implement this service, he reached out to a telecom company for providing Internet connectivity and transport services between the organization and the cloud service provider.
In the NIST cloud deployment reference architecture, under which category does the telecom company fall in the above scenario?

A. Cloud consumer
B. Cloud broker
C. Cloud auditor
D. Cloud carrier