On Thursday 09 February 2006 12:53, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > DNIS is Dialed Number Identification Service (or something similar), and it > is simply the number that was dialed. This is kinda nonsensical on a loop > start line (I dialed your number, and it's ringing, so why would you need > to know what number I dialed), but it's critical on PRI and DID circuits, > because the channel the call is delivered on has nothing to do with the > number that was dialed.
Wow. This is one of the most clear explanations of what DNIS is and why it's used I have ever run across. > I wish I had a detailed spec (readable by mortals) of the ADSI protocols, > because I somehow suspect that there is a way to transmit BOTH DNIS and > CLID in the same burst, and I also suspect that Asterisk would be able to > interpret it. Who needs specs; we have the source to the ADSI implementation in Asterisk; if we are able to just dump what the telco is going ot spit at us we will be able to get the code to convert it into two dialplan variables. -A.
