trunking
Britishnoun
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telecomm the cables that take a common route through an exchange building linking ranks of selectors
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plastic housing used to conceal wires, etc; casing
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the delivery of goods over long distances, esp by road vehicles to local distribution centres, from which deliveries and collections are made
Example Sentences
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Whenever a corporate phone network makes a call, a VoIP provider hands over the call from the internet to the phone networks - a technology called "SIP trunking".
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2021
The number of calls per operator per busy hour depends upon the amount of trunking to other offices which that operator is required to do.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
Broadly speaking there are two general methods that may be employed in trunking between exchanges.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
Changed "interoffice" to "inter-office" three times on page 364, to match the spelling in the body of the document: "meant by inter-office trunking;" "inter-office connection system;" "of the inter-office connection."
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
The purpose of the trunk repeater is to enable the inter-office trunking to be done over two wires.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
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