What is exactly the word " trunk " means in telecommunication ?

Question

What is exactly the word " trunk " means in telecommunication ?

Answer 1

*Trunking is a concept in modern communications by which a communications system can provide network access to many clients by sharing a set of lines or frequencies instead of providing them individually. This is analogous to the structure of a tree with one trunk and many branches. Examples of this include telephone systems and the VHF radios commonly used by police agencies. More recently port trunking has been applied in computer networking as well.

*In telecommunications, a trunk is one of :

    * In a communications network, a single transmission channel between two points, which are the switching centers or nodes or both.

    * A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment, as distinguished from local loop circuits which extend from telephone exchange switching equipment to individual telephones or information origination/termination equipment.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_(tele...

Answer 2

kind of a many-laned Highway of information.

Answer 3

Think of a tree. It consists of many branches all terminating in the trunk. When we talk about trunking, it means the core that all the information is carried on (through).