12th April 2022

Written by Jonty Pearce
Is it possible to reduce the Chat volume by the concurrency target before loading into Erlang C
Example, if I have volume of 39 chats and a concurrency of 1.3 I would reduce the volume loaded to 30 chats per interval to adjust the erlang prod hrs requirement
Question asked by Chris
There is no Erlang formula for Chat concurrency so you will need to apply a formula. If 1.3 is your measured or predicted concurrency then this would be a good number to use.
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Jonty Pearce walked into his first call centre in 1989 and has been hooked ever since. He founded Call Centre Helper in 1989.
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