Section 700 - Operation Chapter 3. System Features576-36-700 DBS 576 (USA) issued October 2000 3-35Circular Hunt GroupCircular Hunt Group initiates hunting in a specified group for calls made to a member extension in thegroup. If the called member of the hunt group is busy, the System begins hunting forward to the end ofthe group and then moves forward from the first member of the group. If no member is available(extension is busy or there is no answer for a specified amount of time), the call is queued for the firstmember to become available. You can also set the Queuing Timer and specify how the long theSystem will search the initial hunt group before beginning to search the next hunt group or extension.The main advantage of this type of hunting is that calls can be directed to start with a selected portionof the hunting group based on the directed number. However, all members are eventually searched.Next Extension/Hunt GroupNext Extension/Hunt Group lets you specify which extension or hunt group to search after theQueuing Timer expires. This hunt group can be set as any type of hunt group, an attendant group, oran extension (including virtual extensions).Hardware Requirements• N/ARelated Programming• FF5-1: Hunt Groups Mode• FF5-1: Pilot Number• FF5-1: Member• FF5-1: Delayed Hunt Timer• FF5-1: Queuing Timer• FF5-1: Next HuntingConsiderations• If a member of the hunt group has Do-Not-Disturb (DND) or Call Forwarding - All set, thatphone is temporarily removed from the hunt group.• If a member of the hunt group has Call Forwarding - Busy set and the extension is busy, the callgoes to the next phone in the hunt group.• If all members are busy for the duration of the busy queuing timer, the call can be forwarded toanother hunt group or another extension.• A hunt group can contain both real extensions and virtual extensions. If virtual, several phonescan be made to ring at the same time.• The pilot number for a hunt group is flexible (i.e., any extension number can be designated as thepilot [not a real extension]).• Hunt groups support the following call types:• Direct Inward Dialing (DID) / Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS) / DirectDial Inward (DDI)• Direct Inward System Access (DISA)• Extension calls• Private network attendant calls• Call forward incoming• Call forwarded to Attendant Hunt Group• For Version 3.0 and higher, a queuing wait timer allows you to queue calls in a Hunt Group for afixed period of time. When the call has passed through the Hunt Group once, the timer is
