On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Matt wrote: > Why would the card care? This would be something you'd take care of in your > dialplan.
Right, the card wouldn't care. So does Asterisk know about how to send and receive delimited ANI and DNIS through a channelized voice T1? --Ron > > On 2/18/07, Ron Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Arriving late to this discussion, sorry if this has already been mentioned > > but DNIS and ANI can be variable length without confusion if the sender > > uses the "*" DTMF tone as a delimiter. Thus sending *ANI*DNIS* (pronounced > > "Star ANI Star DNIS Star" allows the receiver to identify the two values > > unambiguously and to find the trailing boundary (when the 3rd "*" has been > > received). > > > > We have a Channelized Voice T1 from a long distance provider that is set > > up this way into our non-Asterisk PBX where the provider sends us ANI as > > the full originating phone number and DNIS as the "last 4 digits". So the > > DTMF string seen by our PBX for someone calling one of our toll-free > > numbers, say 800-123-4567, from a local phone in Hawaii, say 808-555-1313, > > would be "*8085551313*4567*". The PBX parses this string and uses the > > last 4 digits DNIS to route the call from the T1 trunk group to the proper > > internal extension or hunt group. > > > > Do Asterisk and Digium or Sangoma T1/E1 cards know about delimited ANI and > > DNIS? > > > > --Ron > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > > > > > It will do so automatically if it is working. Asterisk will stuff those > > > digits into ${EXTEN}, therefore you need an exten => _XXX,1,Whatever if > > > you are expecting 3 digits. > > > > > > Until recently we had DID service from our telco on an E&M Wink > > > channelized voice T-1. The above is what we did. > > > > > > David Ruggles wrote: > > > > Yuan (and Matt), > > > > > > > > Thanks for the reply, I'm sorry I kind of vented, I just got very > > frustrated > > > > with trying to configure Asterisk for what (in a proprietary PBX) is > > > > normally one of the easiest parts of configuration. > > > > > > > > With a wink start T1 the DNIS digits are transmitted in-band. The > > Network > > > > goes off hook, the PBX winks (goes off hook for 200ms) and then the > > network > > > > sends DNIS (and ANI if used) as DTMF tones, after the PBX gets the > > tones it > > > > answers the call (goes off hook). So you would tell the PBX to look > > for x > > > > number of digits and then after getting that number of digits it will > > answer > > > > the call. I have the Sangoma A101 configured for wink start, but I > > can't > > > > find anything that says how to specify the number DNIS digits to > > expect. If > > > > the PBX answers the call instead of just winking, the DTMF tones will > > be > > > > transmitted during the call which is what seems to be happening here. > > > > > > > > For more specific information a good overview of the wink start > > process can > > > > be found here: > > > > > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk653/technologies_tech_note09186a0080 > > > > 1123bb.shtml#topic2a > > > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me how to configure Asterisk to pickup the DNIS digits > > off a > > > > wink start T1? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > David Ruggles > > > > CCNA MCSE (NT) CNA A+ > > > > Network Engineer Safe Data, Inc. > > > > (910) 285-7200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yuan LIU > > > > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:57 PM > > > > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > > > > Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Does Asterisk support DNIS? > > > > > > > > Matt already replied to your other posting of similar content. I'm > > also a > > > > bit confused. Do you mean you have observed that Asterisk is brought > > into > > > > the intended context, but start to react to digits in DNIS one after > > > > another? If so, can you estimate the interval Asterisk stays in each > > > > extension? > > > > > > > > If this is true, it seems to suggest that your provider is sending > > DNIS as a > > > > > > > > DTMF string after Asterisk has answered the call. Isn't this a bit > > weird? > > > > What does the card's manual say about DNIS (with wink start)? > > > > > > > > Yuan Liu _______________________________________________ --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