Call Pickup
Call Pickup allows a phone user to answer a call that is ringing on another phone. Cisco Unified CME 7.1 introduces Call Pickup features for SIP phones. SCCP and SIP phones support three types of Call Pickup:
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Directed Call Pickup—Call pickup, explicit ringing extension. Any local phone user can pick up a ringing call on another phone by pressing a soft key and then dialing the extension. A phone user does not need to belong to a pickup group to use this method. The soft key that the user presses, either GPickUp or PickUp, depends on your configuration.
•Group Pickup, Different Group—Call pickup, explicit group ringing extension. A phone user can answer a ringing phone in any pickup group by pressing the GPickUp soft key and then dialing the pickup group number. If there is only one pickup group defined in the Cisco Unified CME system, the phone user can pick up the call simply by pressing the GPickUp soft key. A phone user does not need to belong to a pickup group to use this method.
•Local Group Pickup—Call pickup, local group ringing extension. A phone user can pick up a ringing call on another phone by pressing a soft key and then the asterisk (*) if both phones are in the same pickup group. The soft key that the user presses, either GPickUp or PickUp, depends on your configuration.
The specific soft keys used to access different Call Pickup features on SCCP and SIP phones depends on the configuration in Cisco Unified CME. See the service directed-pickup command in Cisco Unified CME Command Reference for a description.
You can assign each directory number to only one pickup group and a directory number must have a pickup group configured to use Local Group Pickup. There is no limit to the number of directory numbers that can be assigned to a single pickup group, or to the number of pickup groups that can be defined in a Cisco Unified CME system.
If more than one call is ringing on the same number, the calls are picked up in the order in which they were received; the call that has been ringing the longest is the first call picked up from that extension number. Remote call pickup is not supported.
Call Pickup features are enabled globally for all phones through Cisco Unified CME. The PickUp and GpickUp soft keys display on supported SCCP and SIP phones by default and can be modified by using a phone template. For configuration information, see the "Enabling Call Pickup" section.
Figure 41 shows four call-pickup scenarios.
Figure 41 Call Pickup
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