The Top-Down routing pattern always restarts scanning from the beginning of the configured ordered agent list for every new contact, matching to the first available agent found, unlike Circular which resumes from where it left off.

fact · verified 2026-09-04

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Webex Contact Center
Subsystem
Contact routing
Deployment
cloud
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-04
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-04

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 4). Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: claim wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts,
  title  = {Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: claim wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts},
  note   = {Claim wxcc-rt-circular-resumes-top-down-restarts, verified 2026-09-04}
}

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