trunking

/ 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

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

"It's commercially manufactured rope and commonly used on building sites and for drawing electrical cable through trunking."

From BBC

“With its low-latency wireless solution for multi-locomotive synchronous control, we have the assurance necessary to increase carriage and loading capacity, which in turn will benefit our return on investment. In addition, the broadband trunking platform enables a diversified package of business services in a single network, including dispatching and wireless video transmission for real-time monitoring of the track and checking the cargo drop-off from the carriages — a step that prior to eLTE deployment had to manually, at great risk to operator safety.”

From Forbes

While this is the first time that 4G eLTE technology has been applied to a heavy-haul railway, governments, and transportation and energy industries are beginning to see the potential of applying this wireless broadband trunking solution to many other uses.

From Forbes

And its data trunking service is able to provide 600Mbps with a latency of less than 150 milliseconds.

From Forbes