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ALTERNATE TRUNK GROUP [1 record]

Record 1 1983-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Switching
OBS

Operation in which calls offered to a trunk group during the measurement interval find all trunks in the group busy and thus are either offered to an alternate route or receive reorder.(ENBELL, 80 : 509)(...) the more economic route will have the trunks engineered to carry very heavy traffic with the overflow to the more expensive routes.(PEASWI : 55)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation téléphonique
OBS

Opération qui consiste à présenter une communication sur un faisceau de circuits normaux en cas d'encombrement d'un faisceau de circuits transversaux. (TECHNI, E-2860: 10) Les autocommutateurs anciens en matériel Rotary n'ont aucune possibilité de faire du débordement (c'est-à-dire d'atteindre la destination demandée par une seconde voie en effectuant un transit supplémentaire en cas d'encombrement de la voie normale). (TECHNI, E-2876: 8) En France, les circuits normaux sont les circuits qui relient directement 2 centres sans passer par un centre de transit.

Spanish

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