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  • #33695
    DS
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    I have a trunk group with roughly 1200 ccs/hour. I want to equip enough trunks to limit blocked calls to about 1 out of 100. Does anyone know how to determine this?

    #33696
    Webmaster
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    Assuming that your traffic figure is for the busy hour, divide it by 36 to convert to Erlangs (33.333). Then, use our free online Erlang B Calculator, setting the blocking as 0.01.

    The answer comes out at 45 lines.

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    #33697
    DS
    Guest

    I’m making the assumption that 100% of the blocked calls remain within the system. As I understand it, the Erlang B calculator does not retain blocked calls.

    #33698
    Webmaster
    Guest

    That’s true. Erlang B assumes that all blocked calls are immediately cleared from the system.

    Which model you use depends on how long the blocked calls remain in the system. If they remain in the system only as long as their holding time (had they been answered), then you should use the Poisson (Molina) model. If you are only looking at 1% blocking, the error introduced by using Erlang B would be almost negligible.

    If calls are held in the system until they are answered, then Erlang C is the correct model to use for analysing this form of queuing.

    We do not have products that support Poisson (Molina), because this situation is not often found in the real world (blocked calls are usually cleared or queued). We do have Erlang C Calculators though.

    You may also wish to consider the Extended Erlang B model. There is a free calculator on this site. It is used to model the situation where a percentage of blocked calls immediately retry. Again, for 1% blocking, you probably wouldn’t notice a difference in the results anyway.

    #33699
    DS
    Guest

    I’ve come accross a copy of the Poisson table, but it has a limited number of trunks listed. Is there a formula to calculate the Poisson value? Or, is there an expanded Poisson table online?

    #33700
    Webmaster
    Guest

    There’s a good book called Traffic System Design Handbook by James R. Boucher and published by IEEE Press. It is easy to read and has a Poisson table up to 200 lines.

    I’ve never seen any tables with higher values.

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