Erlang, A. K. (1878–1929)

The Danish mathematician and traffic engineer for the Copenhagen Tele-

phone Company who developed the various Erlang traffic engineering models. These formulas calculate grade of service (GoS) based on Busy Hour Traffic (BHT) expressed in hours of traffic, or Erlangs, presented to circuits. See also Erlang, GoS, and traffic engineering.

• conference call
• configuration management
• confirmation
• Conférence Européenne des administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications (CEPT)
• congestion
• congestion management
• conjugate structure algebraic code excited linear prediction (CS-ACELP)
• connection
• connectionless
• Connectionless Broadband Data Service (CBDS)
• Connectionless Network Protocol (CLNP)
• connection-oriented
• connector
• Consent Decree
• console
• Consortia, Fora, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Consortia, Fora, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Consortia, Fora, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• constant bit rate (CBR)
• constraint-based routing
• Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT)
• content blocking
• continuity algorithm
• continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSDM)
• continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSDM)