Subject: peak load data
James Love (love@cptech.org)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 07:21:58 -0400
Message-Id: <358E3E56.6594FD0B@cptech.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 07:21:58 -0400 From: James Love <love@cptech.org> To: Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: peak load data
Does anyone have any statistics or data concerning residential voice
usage, as it relates to peak demands? I need to compare it to ISP
data. The following is data from an ISP, with the peak hours normalized
at 1,000. It shows that the peak is at 10 pm, and that the peak hour
itself only represents 7.3 percent of total 24 hour usage. (a perfectly
even load would be 4.17 percent) I am tying to determine what percent of
the typical voice peak hour is of the 24 hour usage. I have seen some
data indicating that a business that services customers has a peak hour
that is greater than 16 percent of the total 24 hour load, but I would
like something closer to residential users. Also, very greatful for
additional data on ISP usage, particularly if they can distinguish
between business and residential calling.
Among the policy implications, if Internet calls have less harp peaks
than do voice calls, the "average" cost of Internet calls should be
considerably lower in traditional RBOC cost accounting models.
jamie
1:00 AM 515
2:00 AM 292
3:00 AM 106
4:00 AM 40
5:00 AM 75
6:00 AM 112
7:00 AM 205
8:00 AM 326
9:00 AM 487
10:00 AM 554
11:00 AM 561
12:00 AM 549
1:00 PM 521
2:00 PM 541
3:00 PM 597
4:00 PM 794
5:00 PM 902
6:00 PM 882
7:00 PM 856
8:00 PM 941
9:00 PM 990
10:00 PM 1,000
11:00 PM 979
12:00 PM 838
Total 13,663.08
Peak 1,000.00
10 PM
% total 7.3%
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