> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Kohlsmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 9, 2006 2:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] DID lines > > 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.
Thanks. Telecom terms suck, in large part because they are generally very poorly explained. It took me years to figure out what a trunk was, because whenever I'd ask anyone they'd give me some mumbo-jumbo about how one goes about programming one, instead of telling me what they were for. When I finally figured it out, I felt like taking a broom to everyone who had spent so much time confusing me. Issues . . . oh I got issues . . . and my analyst says it's all Nortel's fault! > > 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. Mortals, I said MORTALS. We've already established that you're a god, so your opinion doesn't count. Jim. -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.3/254 - Release Date: 08/02/2006
