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The term TranslationRouteToVRU is used when calls are translation routed to a peripheral
that is a VRU.
Translation routing plays a signicant role in the accuracy of reporting and allows for
'cradle-to-grave' call tracking and reporting. Some reporting metrics gathered for Call Types
and skill groups are applicable only if calls are translation-routed.
Skills Based Routing
Skills based routing is a routing decision whereby a call is routed to the skill group that has
agents with the appropriate expertise.
About Queuing
Queued calls are calls that are being held until an agent is available.
The Unied ICM software calculates a number of call center metrics based on the time spent
in queues.
It is important to understand the two models of queuing and how queuing affects reporting
metrics.
ACD Queuing
ACD queues are used to queue calls on a targeted ACD and are controlled by the ACD.
Unied ICM might route a call to the ACD, based on knowledge gathered by the Peripheral
Gateways (PGs) that a certain skill group or service at that ACD is best suited to answer the
call.
Once the call arrives at the ACD, if an agent is not available, the ACD queues the call to the
skill group. Optionally a call can be queued to a skill group on the ACD during agent transfers
or resulting from a call treatment provided on the ACD.
Enterprise Queuing
Enterprise queues are controlled by Unied ICM using the Service Control Interface (SCI),
irrespective of the telephony platform chosen to queue the call.
In this model, calls are held at a network-level VRU that has an enterprise view of available
agents, based on the skill groups and services congured for the peripheral.
The following telephony platforms are supported for Enterprise queuing:
Cisco Voice Portal and Cisco IP-IVR, when connected to Unied ICM by a VRU PG
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Chapter 3: Understanding Routing and Queuing
About Queuing