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Each peripheral requires a connection to a PG, and Unied ICM software has unique PGs for
each device it supports. There are PGs that connect to Voice Response Units (VRUs). There
are Media Routing PGs, used to send routing requests from multichannel options that are
integrated into the system.
There are also specic PGs that connect to ACDs. For example, the Aspect PG and the Denity
ECS PG connect to an Aspect and Avaya ACD, respectively, for enterprise routing and reporting.
IPCC Gateway is the PG used for enterprise routing and reporting to a Cisco IP-ACD such
Unied IPCC Enterprise and Unied IPCC Express.
A new PG type, the ARS PG (page 14), connects to an ACD/PBX. This deployment allows for
enterprise queuing and agent-level routing.
It is important to understand the type of peripheral gateway used in your deployment (page 42).
In real-time, the CallRouter receives performance and monitoring information from each PG
every three seconds. The Router holds this data in memory and uses it to make routing decisions.
This real-time information is constantly overwritten in the Router memory by new data.
Figure 2: Peripheral and Peripheral Gateway
Processes on the PG interpret messages on the peripheral and provide data to the Unied ICM
as follows:
By extracting status information from the peripheral through the peripheral's proprietary CTI
interface,
By normalizing that information and converting it into the format that Unied ICM uses,
By forming database objects (Call object, Agent objects, Routing objects, and so forth) from
the information, and
By passing the normalized data to the Router.
Reporting Guide for Cisco Unified ICM Enterprise & Hosted Release 7.2(1)
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Chapter 1: System Architecture and Reporting
Peripherals and Peripheral Gateways