Call Center Features

detection precise” is used in countries that, except for the continuous dial tone and discontinuous other tone, have tones with characteristics that do not match those expected by the tone detector board’s detect mode. The “level of tone detection broadband” is used in countries that have a discontinuous dial tone.

World Class Tone Generation

Allows you to define call-progress tones. You can select values for frequency and cadence. If you do not define a call-progress tone, DEFINITY ECS sends silence.

Call Center Features

DEFINITY ECS offers the following features designed to help you set up and maintain a modern call center.

Abandoned Call Search

Allows a central office that does not provide timely disconnect supervision to identify abandoned calls. An abandoned call is one in which the calling party hangs up before the call is answered. Abandoned Call Search is suitable only for older central offices that do not provide timely disconnect supervision.

Add/Remove Skills

Allows an agent using Expert Agent Selection to add or remove skills. A skill is a numeric identifier that refers to an agent’s specific ability. For example, an agent who speaks English and Spanish could be assigned a language -speaking skill with an identifier of 20. The agent then adds skill 20 to his or her set of working skills. If a customer needs a Spanish-speaking agent, the system routes the call to an agent with that skill. Each agent can have up to four active skills, and each skill is assigned a priority level.

Agent Call Handling

Allows you to administer functions that Automatic Call Distribution agents use when handling incoming calls. You define specific agent capabilities and can plan capacities based on those capabilities. The same list of agent capabilities are also supported through the CallVisor Adjunct/Switch Applications Interface (ASAI).

Auto-Available Split

Allows members of an ACD split to be in Auto-In work mode continuously. An agent in Auto-In work mode becomes available for another ACD call immediately after disconnecting from an ACD call. You can use AAS to bring ACD-split mem-

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