Talk:Teletraffic engineering

IP

Well, I think IP Traffic Engineering needs to be separate from Teletraffic Engineering, as the issues and mechanisms are different.

If we get the material, yes. Unfortunately Teletraffic engineering in broadband networks was almost entirely stolen material. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Roots

Teletraffic engineering is the application of traffic engineering theory to telecommunications.

• Traffic engineering theory as in Traffic engineering (transportation)? --Abdull (talk) 09:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Teletraffic economics and forecasting

I don't like this paragraph ...

As in any business environment, network operators must charge tariffs for their services. These charges must be balanced with the supplied QoS. When operators supply services internationally, this is described as trade in services and is governed by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

I propose this is removed. The word tariff is then being construed as a trade tariff as between countries which is way off topic, and nothing to do with the subject.

If economics is required, consider some form of words relating to the topics below ( this not the proposed text )

The first paragraph captures the bandwidth requirement and therefore cost side which is appropriate for a business running their own traffic loads, and buying a service. The goal here is cost minimisation by predicting traffic requirements, and purchasing a service with the minimum required bandwidth. The business can also implement strategies such as QoS to control the flow, by de-prioritising batch/bulk traffic to allow realtime traffic to take priority.

In the case where a network operator is selling a defined bandwidth service, it maybe needs to talking about the fees the operator charges to recover the cost. The cost of the operator's infrastructure would be defined by the designed capacity and other factors, which in turn is determined by projected sales, revenues, operating and finance costs over the life of the infrastructure, nothing to do with the traffic as such. Even the relationship to capacity may be minimal in cases where the cost of construction is likely much greater than the cost of additional bandwidth ( 144 fibre cable vs 72 fibre cable )

The fee would be defined mostly by the competitive market and the parameters of the service ( locations, bandwidth, latency), not so much by apportionment of infrastructure cost. Edmaher (talk) 11:36, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Actually the whole current article should be deleted as it is completely unsourced; the only reference on the page is a dead link. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:05, 29 March 2025 (UTC)