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If you do not specify a service level threshold for an individual service, the default threshold
you specied for the peripheral is used.
If you are using translation routing and doing enterprise queuing, you might also want to
congure service level for call types. You can congure it globally, or you can congure it
for individual call types.
Service Level Type
Service level type determines how abandoned calls affect service level.
You can choose not to track Abandoned Calls by simply leaving the Abandon Wait Time eld
blank.
However, if you establish a value for abandoned calls, you can congure them to affect the
service Level in one of three ways:
They can be ignored (and removed from the number of calls you had the opportunity to
answer).
They can affect the Service Level negatively (and be treated as lost opportunities).
They can affect the Service Level positively (and be counted as answered calls).
Planning for Short Calls
A short call is a call that is either abandoned very quickly or answered and terminated very
quickly. By dening what you believe to be a short call, you can lter out from reporting metrics
those calls that did not stay in the system long enough to be considered and counted as events.
The Abandoned Call Wait timer, set at the peripheral, denes the threshold under which the
abandoned call will not be counted. If the abandoned threshold is lower than the service level
threshold, the call will not affect the Service level. If call wait time is higher than this threshold,
the call is counted as Offered.
The Answered Short Call threshold, also set at the peripheral, denes the time under which the
call will not be counted as answered and will not impact agent performance.
If you plan to use Short Calls to lter out false abandons or to detect when calls are answered
and terminated too quickly to be considered handled, consider the following:
You can congure abandoned short calls globally for all Call Types.
You can congure abandoned short calls for the peripheral. These are tracked for the services
that are congured for that peripheral.
You can choose not to count any abandoned calls as short calls regardless of how quickly
they abandon.
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Chapter 4: Planning for Reporting
Planning for Short Calls