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6. You are a traffic engineer. You are redesigning a trunk group that currently

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Question

6. You are a traffic engineer. You are redesigning a trunk group that currently supports 96 simultaneous calls. the trunk group is now reaching maximum capacity and future resources have to be added.

a) If the demand for resources is growing 10% per year and you wish to install cable plant that will provide adequate support for the next 15 years, how many trunks would you need to add to the current trunk group?

b) How many T1 lines would you add to make sure you could support the expected demand above (round up)?

c) How many trunks would be needed if growth was 35% per year?

Explanation / Answer

Solution :

a) If the demand for resources is growing 10% per year then 9.6 trunks is to be add to current trunk group.

b) To make sure that you could support the expected demand round up by adding 2 T1 lines.

c) The number of trunks would be needed if growth was 35% per year is 33.6 trunks.