Call Gapping is a load control method for throttling telephone traffic on a telephone network

Telephone network

A telephone network is a telecommunications network used for telephone calls between two or more parties.There are a number of different types of telephone network:...

 when the network is overloaded.

Call gapping works by blocking calls for a determined period of time (the gap size). After the period of time passes, another call is allowed through. Another gap is then started and the process repeats until the overload condition is resolved.

Call gapping is not to be confused with Silence suppression

Silence suppression

The term silence suppression is used in telephony to describe the process of not transmitting information over the network when one of the parties involved in a telephone call is not speaking, thereby reducing bandwidth usage....

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External links

• Comparison of call gapping and percent blocking for overloadcontrol in distributed switching systems and telecommunications networks (abstract)