Report: Optimally Rehoming Local Serving Offices to a New Point of Presence
Joanne Susan Lavin · AT&T Technical Journal · 1987
The agreement that governed AT&T's divestiture of the Bell Operating Companies separated the ownership of the local and long-haul portions of the public telephone network and required AT&T to designate specific nodes of its network as the sole points of interface with the local network. AT&T must also choose the assignment of the local serving offices to these points of interface, otherwise known as points of presence (POPs).