trunking

British  

/ ˈtrʌŋkɪŋ /

noun

1. telecomm the cables that take a common route through an exchange building linking ranks of selectors

2. plastic housing used to conceal wires, etc; casing

3. the delivery of goods over long distances, esp by road vehicles to local distribution centres, from which deliveries and collections are made

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Example Sentences

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

Where the trunking is done between offices, however, the system may be so modified as to work over two wire inter-office trunks.

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

Success in automatic telephony did come by the re-adoption of the trunking method.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster

It is impossible, by means of any simple diagram, to show a complete scheme of trunking employed, but Fig.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel