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Chapter 3 Design Considerations for High Availability
Multi-Channel Design Considerations (Cisco Email Manager Option and Cisco Collaboration Server Option)
Multi-Channel Design Considerations (Cisco Email Manager
Option and Cisco Collaboration Server Option)
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The Unified CCE solution can be extended to support multi-channel customer contacts, with email and
web contacts being routed by the Unified CCE to agents in a blended or universal queue mode. The
following optional components are integrated into the Unified CCE architecture (see Figure 3-10):
Media Routing Peripheral Gateway
To route multi-channel contacts, the Cisco e-Mail Manager and Cisco Collaboration Server Media
Blender communicate with the Media Routing Peripheral Gateway. The Media Routing Peripheral
Gateway, like any peripheral gateway, can be deployed in a redundant or duplex manner with two
servers interconnected for high availability. Typically, the Media Routing Peripheral Gateway is
co-located at the Central Controller and has an IP socket connection to the multi-channel systems.
Admin Workstation ConAPI Interface
The integration of the Cisco multi-channel options allows for the Unified ICM and optional systems
to share configuration information about agents and their related skill groups. The Configuration
Application Programming Interface (ConAPI) runs on an Administrative Workstation and can be
configured with a backup service running on another Administrative Workstation.
Agent Reporting and Management (ARM) and Task Event Services (TES) Connections
ARM and TES services provide call (ARM) and non-voice (TES) state and event notification from
the Unified CCE CTI Server to the multi-channel systems. These connections provide agent
information to the email and web environments as well as accepting and processing task requests
from them. The connection is a TCP/IP socket that connects to the agent's associated CTI Server,
which can be deployed as a redundant or duplex pair on the Agent Peripheral Gateway.
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