A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of
VoIP
calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example,
a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report
is created of the number of concurrent VoIP calls that a specified equipment or
network path carries at any given instance by retrieving batches of stored call
detail records, culling the records that are relevant to the specified equipment
or network path, considering the culled records in a time sorted manner, and incrementing
or decrementing a counter based on whether a considered record is a call-beginning
record or a call-ending record, respectively. The state of the counter is reported,
illustratively, as a line entry each time the counter's state is modified.