2010/6/20 Philip Prindeville <[email protected]>:
> (2) When the call rings out to the cell phone, is there a header that gets
> translated into SS7 that tells cell carrier being rung to not do a
> forward-on-no-answer to voicemail?  In the above scenario, we want the
> voicemail on the PBX to answer, not the voicemail on the cell's carrier to
> pick up if there's no answer.
>
>
> There is no such specification. Voicemail serves are not a "standard",
> they are just servers that automatically answer the call to bill it :)
>
>
> Right, but forwarding from the handset to the voicemail IP (intelligence
> peripheral) counts as an additional forwarding step.

No, in SIP it would be a 302 which is a SIP response rather than a new step.
If the called phone would *route* the INVITE back to the proxy (by
changing the RURI) then it would be a new step, but this is not what
happens as phones are UA's rather than proxies.


> If one sent a header saying Max-Forwards N, with a current Hop-Count as N,
> then that would be sufficient to stop the additional transfer, yes?

No. First of all I don't know if there is such a "Max-Forwards" header
out of SIP world (as you are speaking about SS7). Anyhow, considering
it exists:

- Phone1 calls Phone2 through Proxy (max-forwards=1).
- Proxy decrements max-forwards to 0 and routes the call to Phone2.
- Phone2 doesn't answer in N seconds,or it switched off, or rejects
the call by sending a 302 to redirect the call to its voicemail.
- Proxy then decides to create a new branch (***so Max-Forwards
remains the same***) to the voicemail server.

There is no way at all to instruct the PSTN provider not to forward a
call to the voicemail as such decision just depends on the called
number's configuration and provider's configuration.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<[email protected]>

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