Continuing online-routed operators are handled somewhat like offline-routed ones. A continuing online-routed operator requires some subset of the online streams to be present in each phase it is present in. Those streams are routed normally in the first phase that the operator is present in. In the following phases, if there are continuing online-routed operators present, the possible links for each online-routed operator are traversed and the routing information from the first phase where that operator occurred is copied in. As a result, the online-routed streams will work just the same as regular offline streams: they will usually just be rerouted using the same VFSMs and different schedules, but may be fixed to their existing schedule when they cross phase boundaries (as discussed above). Where new online streams are present in a following phase (or where the following phase does not have any continuing streams), new VFSMs and new schedule slots are allocated as would be done for any offline-routed operator.