From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Forster
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [asterisk-users] Agents in more than one queue at once

 

My company has been running Asterisk 1.6.2.19-1_centos5 from the official yum 
repo, and for a while now I've been receiving complaints from our call centers 
about calls not being routed in the most efficient order.


I'll explain with a simplified scenario--

Let's say I have two queues: A and B. I have one agent, Alice, who is a member 
of both of these queues. While Alice is busy on a call, one person calls in to 
queue A, and then, several moments later, another person calls in to queue B.

At this point, note that both callers waiting on hold are "position 1" in their 
respective queues. A "queue show" might look like this...

> A has 1 calls (max unlimited) in 'leastrecent' strategy (0s holdtime, 533s 
> talktime), W:1, C:1, A:0, SL:100.0% within 60s
>    Members:
>       21 (Local/21@from-queue/n) (dynamic) (In use) has taken 1 calls (last 
> was 533 secs ago)
>    Callers:
>       1. SIP/Trunk-0000eb17 (wait: 1:14, prio: 0)
> 
> B has 1 calls (max unlimited) in 'leastrecent' strategy (0s holdtime, 533s 
> talktime), W:1, C:1, A:0, SL:100.0% within 60s
>    Members:
>       21 (Local/21@from-queue/n) (dynamic) (In use) has taken 1 calls (last 
> was 533 secs ago)
>    Callers:
>       1. SIP/Trunk-0000eb1e (wait: 0:45, prio: 0)

My question is: when Alice gets off the phone, which call will she get? My 
expectation is that she will get the call which has been waiting longer, but 
I'm not sure that's actually the case.

 

Alex Forster

 

Depends on many factors, but if the queues have equal priority, the longest 
wait will (AFAIK) take priority.

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