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- Recommendation E.540
- OVERALL GRADE OF SERVICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL PART OF AN
- INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION
- 1 International Routing Plan envisages
- that international traffic relations may be served by any of the
- following routing arrangements:
- a) direct circuits;
- b) transit operation involving one or more transit centres for
- all connections,
- c) direct high-usage circuits with overflow via one or more
- transit centres.
- In principle there would be merit in dimensioning international facilities
- to provide e grade of service for all relations,
- however served. Practical considerations make it advisable to
- depart from one universal value.
- 2 Direct circuit groups are dimensioned,
- according to Recommendation E.520 on the basis of p = 1% loss
- probability during the mean busy hour.
- An exception is permitted for small groups of very long
- international circuits for which p = 3% loss probability is
- accepted for six or fewer circuits. As the traffic increases the
- grade of service improves progressively until p = 1% loss value is
- reached for 20 circuits.
- 3 For the relations served exclusively by transit operation the
- grade of service will deteriorate with the number of transit
- centres in the connection. Measurements made on
- congestion in such circumstances suggest that the overall grade of
- service for up to six links in tandem is less than twice the
- congestion of any of the six links in the chain. Hence, for a
- series of routes, each dimensioned for p = 1%, the overall grade of
- service should seldom exceed 2%. An East-West type of connection
- would have the advantage of different busy hours on the various
- links. Corresponding advantage would not apply to North-South
- circuits.
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- Fascicle II.3 - Rec. E.540 PAGE1
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- In the case of relations served by high-usage circuits the overflow traffic will route over
- at least two links and, hence, will be subject to the same
- deterioration of service as in the case for transit traffic. However, a substantial part of the traffic will be
- connected over the high-usage circuits and the overall grade of
- service will approximate that of the relations served solely by
- direct circuits.
- It is desirable that at least one high-usage circuit should
- always be provided between a CT3 and its homing CT1, even though
- the circuit may not be wholly justified on economic considerations
- alone. However, such a circuit should not be provided unless there
- is a measurable amount of traffic which exists, or can be foreseen
- in the busy hour. The provision of such circuits would
- improve the transmission as well as the grade of service; these
- considerations should encourage an increase both in traffic and in
- the revenue-earning capacity of the circuits provided.
- The overall grade of service for the international part of a
- connection is a contributory factor to the overall grade of service
- from the calling party in one country to the called party in
- another.
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