Offered traffic is the traffic that would be carried if every call attempt succeeded. Carried traffic is the average number of concurrent calls measured over a period; carried traffic is less than offered by the blocked portion.
field report · Checked 2026-09-25
- Vendor
- vendor-neutral
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- traffic engineering terminology
- Deployment
- any
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- revision current at 2026-09-25
- Status
- field report
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Erlang (unit) — Wikipedia · tier 5 independent technical research · Traffic measurements / offered traffic section
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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-offered-vs-carried. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/erlang-traffic-engineering-offered-vs-carried
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-erlang-traffic-engineering-offered-vs-carried,
title = {Erlang B and Erlang C for voice and contact center sizing: source note erlang-traffic-engineering-offered-vs-carried},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/erlang-traffic-engineering-offered-vs-carried},
note = {Source note erlang-traffic-engineering-offered-vs-carried, checked 2026-09-25}
}