DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide
555-233-506 Issue 1
April 2000
Features and technical reference
1492Station Hunting
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Calls route through the chain as follows.
There is no limit to the number of extensions that can be in a station-hunting
chain.
Station Hunting examples
In this example (Tabl e 56), extension 2 is the called extension. Because extension
2 is busy, the system follows the station-hunting chain to find an idle extension.
The system cannot find an idle extension so it r et ur ns busy tone to the caller. Note
that the chain terminates with extension 5. This means that the system cannot
route the call to extension 1 even though it is an idle extension in the chain.
Table 55. Station Hunting Characteristics
Condition Response
Encounters an idle extension Rings extension
Encounters an active extension Routes to next extension in chain
Encounters an extension with a blank
hunt-to station field Returns busy tone if no station was
idle
Encounters any station a second time Returns busy tone
Has checked 30 stations in the chain,
without finding an idle one Returns busy tone
Table 56. Station-Hunting Chain — Example 1
Extension State Rings on extension
1Idle2
2Busy3
3Active4
4Active5
5Busy