When two or more SBCs in a Direct Routing route are healthy and of equal priority, Direct Routing distributes calls between them with a Fisher-Yates shuffle; SBC health is judged from SIP OPTIONS received in the last three minutes.

Checked 2026-09-24

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
SBC selection
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-24
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). SIP trunk capacity and concurrent call planning: source note sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle,
  title  = {SIP trunk capacity and concurrent call planning: source note sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle},
  note   = {Source note sip-trunk-capacity-planning-ms-sbc-shuffle, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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