BHT (Busy Hour Traffic)

The volume of calls variously attempted or completed curing the busy

hour of the day. BHT is key to traffic engineering. See also busy hour, Erlang, Poisson distribution, traffic, and traffic engineering.

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• original equipment manufacturer (OEM)
• or ITU-TSS)
• orthogonal
• orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
• oscillate
• oscillate
• oscillator
• oscillator
• OSI Reference Model (Open Systems Interconnection Model)
• OS (Operating System)
• OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
• OSP (OutSide Plant)
• OSS (Operations Support System)
• Ostrofsky, Marc
• OTA (over the air)
• Other Common Carrier (OCC)
• OTN (Optical Transport Network)
• OTN (Optical Transport Network)
• OTU (Optical Transport Unit)
• OTU (Optical Transport Unit)
• out-of-band signaling and control
• out-of-phase
• outside plant (OSP)
• outside vapor deposition (OVD)
• outsourcing