[asterisk-users] over running my did's

2010-04-10 Thread Timothy C Litwiller
I have a did with 20 channels from didforsale. that we use to let local 
members call to listen to a conference several times a week without long 
distance charges.

The upcoming call is getting more interest than usual and from places 
that are not local so we want to use a free conference service in 
addition to the local conference.

How can I setup a conference on my asterisk box for the people that 
normally call in there and also call an outside number for those that 
are above and beyond the 20 lines channels I can provide and the are 
long distance anyways so a number here or a number in iowa doesn't make 
them any difference.

is there a way that I could call the outside conference # and then 
transfer it to a local asterisk conference and then hang up can call the 
local asterisk conference back - and if I do that how do I hang up the 
long distance conference when it is done?

I seem to be missing some basic understanding here.


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Re: [asterisk-users] over running my did's

2010-04-10 Thread Darren Wiebe
On 10/04/2010 9:24 PM, Timothy C Litwiller wrote:
 I have a did with 20 channels from didforsale. that we use to let local
 members call to listen to a conference several times a week without long
 distance charges.

 The upcoming call is getting more interest than usual and from places
 that are not local so we want to use a free conference service in
 addition to the local conference.

 How can I setup a conference on my asterisk box for the people that
 normally call in there and also call an outside number for those that
 are above and beyond the 20 lines channels I can provide and the are
 long distance anyways so a number here or a number in iowa doesn't make
 them any difference.

 is there a way that I could call the outside conference # and then
 transfer it to a local asterisk conference and then hang up can call the
 local asterisk conference back - and if I do that how do I hang up the
 long distance conference when it is done?

 I seem to be missing some basic understanding here.

I would call into the free conference service and then transfer that 
call into my meetme conference.  If you're using Trixbox you can use the 
MeetMe web control to disconnect the call when you're done.  You can 
also disconnect calls from the asterisk cli using the soft hangup command.

Darren Wiebe
dar...@aleph-com.net

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