POOLING POINTS
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[The essential guide to telecommunications, By Annabel Z. Dodd, page 160 for example]

A NEUTRAL POOLING POINT is critical because operators don't want to divulge ... impact with best practices tips from the leading telecom strategists. ...
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The first step toward interconnectivity among carriers is to build a global network of strategically located POOLING POINTS on high-traffic routes between major markets. To trade bandwidth, both the buyer and seller must connect to the pooling point. A POOLING POINT is basically a highly scalable switch, usually located in or near a carrier hotel that physically connects to both of the networks involved in a bandwidth transaction. Once connected, the carriers can also buy or sell bandwidth from all of the other providers connected to that POOLING POINT. The cost to the carrier typically involves a monthly port charge-anywhere from a DS-3 (44.736 Mbits/sec) up to an OC-48 (2.5 Gbits/sec) and shortly OC-192 (10 Gbits/sec)-and a one-time delivery or transaction fee.
Enron Broadband Services became an evangelist for bandwidth trading in May 1999. In December 1999, Enron announced an operational city pair of pooling points between New York and Los Angeles. The company completed its first transaction, trading with Global Crossing that same month. In 2000, Enron built a POOLING POINT in London and invested in pooling points in Asia, including Tokyo. The company will eventually look into South America and some of the major cities there.
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a POOLING POINT may be a fiber interconnection and switching site in a particular ...... Stochastic models for telecom commoditiy prices. Comput. ...
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In addition, it allows resource provider domains to be linked via configurable, provider-neutral resource exchange points that are the physical resource equivalents of the POOLING POINT, or Internet Exchange Point (IXP). We demonstrate how our trading system will operate by presenting a use case in which a network topology is constructed using resources from multiple providers
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In the gas industry:
POOLING POINT
A common market point, generally located at the terminus of a pipeline's production area. Under a POOLING POINT transportation arrangement, the shipper is responsible for ensuring that the total nominations of gas received at the POOLING POINT are in balance with the amounts received into the main stream. Volumes are then transported downstream under corresponding transportation arrangements. Such arrangements are designed to increase the receipt point flexibility of the shipper. Also referred to as telescoping points or headstations.
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A POOLING POINT is a facility for the exchange of traffic at a ...
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