[Asterisk-Dev] Benchmark numbers....

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> I'm sorry... for the list perhaps?
> 
> What's BHCA?

Busy Hour Call Attempts

It's a measure used to compare switches (traditional and soft) in terms 
of the number of call attempts they can handle in a given period of 
time. As opposed to saying "our switch can handle 10,000 calls", which 
could mean anything from 10,000 simultaneous calls that were initiated 
once per second to 10,000 simultaneous call attempts...

It's not uncommon for large telco switches to have BHCA numbers of 
1,000,000 or more :-)