A demoted SBC isn't tried first. Direct Routing tries the other SBCs in the route, then retries the demoted SBC before generating a failure. When two or more SBCs in a route are equally healthy and equal in priority, calls are spread across them with a Fisher-Yates shuffle.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Microsoft Teams Phone Direct Routing
Subsystem
call-routing
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Troubleshooting Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion,
  title  = {Troubleshooting Teams Direct Routing: source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion},
  note   = {Source note teams-direct-routing-troubleshooting-route-demotion, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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