Definitions for "Erlang "
This is a measure of traffic or load in a telecommunications system. 1 Erlang is equivalent to one telephone line being permanently used.
Unit of traffic intensity. One Erlang is the intensity at which one traffic path would be continuously occupied, e.g., one call-hour per hour, one call-minute per minute, etc. Generally referred to as 36 CCS.
A dimensionless unit of average traffic density in a telecommunications network.
Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson. It is being used by Ericsson as a systems programming language for large concurrent fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Erlang is a general-purpose concurrent programming language and runtime system. The sequential subset of Erlang is a functional language, with strict evaluation, single assignment, and dynamic typing. For concurrency it follows the Actor model.