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The traffic model used

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The Call Minutes Calculator uses the Erlang B traffic model for its calculations. It makes the following assumptions:

 

Calls are presented randomly to a trunk group (Poisson arrivals).
Call times are fixed or are exponentially distributed.
Blocked calls are cleared.

 

The assumption that blocked calls are cleared is only valid if calls overflow to another trunk group (for instance, calls to a private network link overflow to the public PSTN telephone network if all trunks on the private network are in use). In practice, this is often not the case. However, if blocking is low the error introduced by this assumption is small.

 

See also

 

Introduction to the Call Minutes Calculator