Design inputs
The most commonly used default value for a general business system is 0.11 Erlangs per station. The most common way to determine trunk usage rates is to divide the total traffic load that is carried by each trunk group by the number of trunks in the group. It is difficult to assign a typical default value for usage per trunk. Such usage can vary greatly from system to system, and even from trunk group to trunk group within a particular system.
Traffic usage has two components:
●Average call duration (also known as call hold time)
●Average number of calls per hour
Systems are usually engineered to accommodate the busiest hour of a normal business day. The number of calls that are completed during that busiest hour is denoted by Busy Hour Calls Completed (BHCC). BHCC is not be confused with Busy Hour Calls Attempted (BHCA), which represents the total number of calls attempted during the busiest hour, regardless of how many of those calls are actually successfully completed. The general expression for the relationship between BHCC, average call duration, and usage is:
= BHCC ⋅ seconds per call Usage (Erlangs)
3600
A commonly used default value for average call duration in a general business system is 200 seconds per call. Example 1: Station usage shows how to calculate the station usages using the data given.
Example 1: Station usage
Assume that an enterprise has sites in Atlanta, Boston, and Cleveland that it wants to populate with the following endpoints (Table 23: Example 1 configuration data on page 181).
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Road Warriors |
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