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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ssome information in advance are theevening and week-end peaks in campareas. Petersburg, Virginia, is an ex-ample. The Petersburg exchangeserves Camp Lee. In the daytimethere are normally four direct circuitsto New York; in the evenings, whenthe men call home, these are steppedup to 20. There is one direct circuitto Pittsburgh in the daytime; in theevenings there are five. There are nodirect circuits to Chicago or Philadel-phia in the daytime; in the eveningsthere are three and four respectively. The war has greatly increased theproblem of unpredictable surges inlong distance traffic. Here again,camp traffic provides a good example.When a large body of troops movesfrom a camp and others move in, whocan name in advance, and come closeto being right, the places these menwill want to call and the number ofcalls they will wish to place to eachlocation? Tonight most of the trafficfrom a certain camps long distancecenter may be flowing north. To- 19^2 War-Time in the Traffic Departments 151
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New Since Pearl HarborThis traffic control bureau in San Franciscofunctions as one of the watch towers forthe Bell Systems network of long distancetelephone lines throughout the United States.Right: Colored plugs indicate line and cir-cuit conditions morrow night it may be flowing eastor west or south. One of the outstanding means ofhandling this unpredictable long dis-tance traffic, and a means of gettingthe best and the most telephone serv-ice from the facilities that already ex-ist—a most challenging problem underpresent conditions of very heavy traf-fic and shortages of material—is thetraffic control bureau. Before PearlHarbor there were three main bureaus—in New York, Cleveland, and Chi-cago. Since December 7, additionalbureaus have been established at SanFrancisco and Atlanta. These traffic control bureaus,* work-ing together and with information ob-tained from other centers, have com- * For an account of the work of the trafficcontrol bureaus, see On Watch—All Over theM

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