Option 7a - use a VOIP provider, and tie up no lines. PaulH
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:35 +1100, James Harper wrote: > I was incorrect in a previous email... The situation in question is > this: > > Asterisk <---BRI---> PBX <---BRI---> PSTN > > There are Samsung extensions on the PBX and SIP extensions on Asterisk. > I want to be able to use TAPI to initiate dialling, and the PBX has no > such feature so Asterisk must initiate it. > > For an Asterisk initiated call from a PBX extension to a PSTN number, > this works as follows: > 1. TAPI (eg Outlook) sends the instruction to Asterisk > 2. Asterisk calls the extension. > 3. The extension answers > 4. Asterisk dials the PSTN number > 5. Asterisk joins the ends together > > This works great except it ties up two BRI channels between asterisk and > the PBX for the duration of the call. Is there a trick I can do to tell > the PBX to join the channels together internally? A transfer or > something? > > I'm using mISDN at the moment, but I guess I could use CAPI if the > required features were missing from mISDN... > > Thanks > > James > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
