I am planning the traffic for a national, terrestrial voice network. I can calculate the amount of E1 interfaces at the local exchanges from the number of users, but what is the average usage of those E1 lines, looking at the traffic on the national backbone? Are there standard values for that?
I hope you are very clear of Grade of services( GoS , i.e % blocking )while calculating the number of E1s required, also it depends on number of subscribers and the erl/subscriber considered.
and for % ultilisation of your calculated trunks(E1s) take busy hour (traffic carried in erlangs / offerred erlang(calculated))*100