Erlang A measure of the traffic intensity of a transmission facility, such as a circuit or channel. One Erlang is the maximum traffic that a facility can support during an hour, and is equivalent to 36 CCS. The Erlang measurement is named for A.K. Erlang, the Danish mathematician and traffic engineer who developed the various Erlang traffic engineering models. See also Erlang, H. K. ; Erlang B; Extended Erlang B; Erlang C; Equivalent Queue Extended Erlang B; GoS; Poisson distribution; traffic; and traffic engineering. |