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traffic engineering Telecom Definition
The inexact science of predicting the volume of future traffic and equipping a network with enough switching and transmission resources to handle that volume, thereby providing end users with a satisfactory grade of service (GoS). See also Erlang, Erlang B, Erlang C, Equivalent Queue Extended Erlang B, Extended Erlang B, GoS, Poisson distribution, and traffic.