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

The subject of inter-office trunking so far as manual switchboards are concerned is, therefore, confined mainly to trunking between a number of offices each equipped with a manual multiple switchboard.

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

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

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