Cisco's 2001 Traffic Analysis document states that in a standard business environment the busy hour carries about 15 to 20 percent of the day's traffic, and that 17 percent of daily traffic is generally used to represent the peak hour.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco IOS VoIP solutions
Subsystem
busy hour estimation
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
document updated 2001-07-02
Checked
2026-09-25

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Erlang B and Erlang C for voice and contact center sizing: source note erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share,
  title  = {Erlang B and Erlang C for voice and contact center sizing: source note erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share},
  note   = {Source note erlang-traffic-engineering-busy-hour-daily-share, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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