The physical location within a LATA (local access and transport area) where an interexchange carrier's circuits connect with the lines of the local telephone company serving that LATA.
The point where the inter-exchange carrier’s responsibilities for the line begin and the local exchange carrier’s responsibility ends. Location of a communications carrier’s switching or terminal equipment.
the common carrier physical location in a city, for example.
A POP is a physical location within a LATA that an IXC establishes for the purpose of gaining access to BOC/LEC networks within the LATA using LEC provided access services. An IXC may have more than one POP within a LATA and the POP may support public and private, switched and non switched services.
an access point to the Internet. A POP necessarily has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. Your Internet service provider (ISP) or online service provider has a point-of-presence on the Internet and probably more than one. The number of POPs that an ISP or OSP has is sometimes used as a measure of its size or growth rate.
A POP is an actual physical location that exists within a LATA that is established as an IXC establishes for the exact purpose of gaining access to BOC/LEC networks that reside within the LATA. This is done using LEC provided access services. IXC may possibly have more than one POP that operates within a LATA and that POP may also support private and public, non-switched and switched services.
a POP is a physical interconnect location where separate telecommunications networks meet and communicate with each other.
A city or location where a vendor has a collection of equipment, such as routers or a dial-up modem pool, for connecting to a network.
