JPS6084061A - Telephone traffic control exchange - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To balance network equipments and traffic by storing tentatively a message of a call not requiring urgency in an exchange and transmitting automatically the said message when the traffic is not heavy. CONSTITUTION:When a subscriber A transmits a special number to request message transmission at not busy state to make FAX communication with a subscriber B, a logical exchange LS-A starts a reception section 4, the reception section 4 receives a telephone number of the subscriber B and FAX data, opens the talking and registers and stores the said number and the FAX data to the storage section 5. On the other hand, a traffic state analyzing section 3 decides periodically the state of traffic independently of the reception processing. The analysis section 3 indicastes the transmission of registered messags to a transmission section 6 at not busy state. The transmission section extracts the FAX data of the storage section 5 to the subscriber B and transmits automatically the data to the subscriber B.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to telephone traffic control switching equipment.

Traditionally, telephone networks (hereinafter referred to as networks) measure the amount of network traffic using a traffic collection system, quantitatively grasp the amount of network traffic generated based on the measurement results, and plan equipment based on the traffic needle at the busiest time. is being done.

Furthermore, since the telephone exchange function is instantaneous, call connections can be made without regard to the amount of network traffic. Therefore, as shown in Figure 1, the network equipment and actual traffic volume vary greatly depending on the time of day.
Therefore, there was a drawback that it was difficult to maintain a balance between network equipment and traffic volume.

The object of the present invention is to improve telephone traffic by temporarily storing calls that do not require immediate message transmission within an exchange, and automatically transmitting the stored messages during periods of low traffic. Our goal is to provide a control exchange.

In order to achieve the above object, the telephone traffic control exchange according to the present invention uses a traffic collection system that collects the traffic volume of each switching facility in the telephone network and calculates the total traffic volume. a traffic situation receiving unit that receives the received traffic amount, and a traffic situation analysis unit that repeatedly compares the received traffic amount with a preset off-time traffic amount to determine whether the current time is off-peak. a receiving part that is activated by the sending of a special number by a calling subscriber and receives the message sent by the calling subscriber and the subscriber number to be sent; and a storage part that registers the received information of the receiving part. , when the traffic situation analysis unit determines that it is a quiet time, reads the registered message and the other party's subscriber number from the storage unit, automatically calls the other subscriber, and sends the registered message when the other subscriber responds. , and a sending section that deletes the registration of the sent storage section upon completion of sending.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a graph showing changes in the amount of network traffic by time of day, where C indicates the state of actual changes in the amount of traffic, and d indicates the maximum amount of traffic processed by the network. The off-duty traffic amount according to the present invention is set, for example, as e.

FIG. 2 is a network configuration diagram for explaining one embodiment of the telephone traffic control exchange according to the present invention. In the figure,
8 is a subscriber, LS-A and LS-B are local exchanges,
TS-A and TS-B indicate toll exchanges, respectively.

The traffic volume of each switching facility within the network is collected by a traffic collection system 1 (hereinafter abbreviated as "traffic collection"), and the traffic volume for the network is calculated here.

The telephone traffic control exchange 7 is connected to the local exchange L8-A and the above-mentioned telephone exchange 1. Each component of the telephone traffic control exchange 7 operates as follows. The traffic status receiving unit 2 receives traffic data from the traffic collection 1 at regular intervals. Traffic situation analysis section 3 receiver section 2
The traffic data received at the time is compared with the amount of traffic during off-peak hours shown in FIG. Receiving section 4
accepts calls requesting message transmission during off-hours. The storage unit 5 registers and stores the message received by the reception unit 4 and the subscriber number of the other party. The sending unit 6 performs automatic oscillation connection to the other subscriber registered in the storage unit 5 and sends a message.

Next, the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. For example, assume that network traffic data is received in 30-minute units from Traffic Receipt 1, and that the off-peak period is set to 50% of the network equipment traffic amount. In this state, when subscriber A sends a special number (e.g. #99) to request message transmission during off-peak hours in order to perform FAX communication to subscriber B, local exchange LS-A Start. As a result, the receiving unit 4 becomes ready for reception, receives subscriber B's coded number following the special number and FAX data, and when the reception is finished, releases the call with the subscriber elderly person and activates the storage unit 5. contains the received subscriber B's number and F
AX data is registered and accumulated. Here, the above
Assume that the signal time is time (IS: 3O) in FIG.

On the other hand, regardless of this reception process, the traffic situation receiving section 2 receives traffic data from the traffic collection 1, and the traffic situation analysis section 3 compares the received network traffic data with the set off-hour traffic amount. This is done every 30 minutes.

However, the time when the message from the subscriber elderly was registered was 15:30, and the actual traffic volume was 15:30.
However, at the time ■ (17:30), the traffic data received from the traffic collector is determined by the analysis unit 3 to be the traffic amount during a quiet time. Then, the analysis section 3 instructs the sending section 6 to send the registered message. The sending section 6, which has received the sending instruction, extracts the FAX data to the subscriber B who has already been registered in the storage section 5. Subsequently, a call operation is automatically performed to subscriber B, and when the response from subscriber B is confirmed, transmission of F'AX data to subscriber B's FAX is started. When data transmission is completed, the communication path with subscriber B is cut off, and the registration of subscriber B registered in storage section 5 is deleted.

As described in detail above, the present invention stores temporary messages and automatically sends the stored messages when the telephone network traffic is slow, thereby making it possible to effectively utilize telephone network equipment and providing benefits to telephone users. This has the effect of realizing low-cost calls.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a graph showing changes in traffic volume by time of day, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a telephone traffic control exchange according to the present invention. L8-A, L8-B...Local exchange TS...Toll switchboard A, B...Telephone subscriber l...Traffic collection system 2...Traffic situation receiving unit 3...Traffic Situation analysis section 4...Receiving section 5...Storing section 6...Sending section Patent applicant NEC Corporation Agent Patent attorney Hisashi Inoro

Claims (1)

[Claims] a traffic status receiving unit that receives the traffic amount at regular intervals from a traffic collection system that collects the traffic amount of each switching facility in the telephone network and calculates the traffic amount for the network; A traffic situation analysis unit that repeatedly compares the traffic amount with the set off-hour traffic amount and determines whether the current time is off-peak or not, and a special number sending unit for the calling subscriber, which is activated and sends out a special number to the calling subscriber. a receiving unit that receives the message and the subscriber number to be sent; a storage unit that registers the reception β information of the receiving unit; and when the traffic situation analysis unit determines that it is a quiet time, the storage unit A sending unit that reads out a message and the subscriber number of the other party, automatically sends it to the subscriber, sends the registered message when the subscriber responds, and deletes the registration of the sent message in the storage unit upon completion of sending. A telephone traffic control exchange consisting of