On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Martin Steinmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Scott Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>> So there are two phones on the system 201 and 202, but 202
>>> also has a PSTN DID 555-1202, and 201 calls that DID number
>>> so that the call goes out via the ITSP and comes back in?
>>...
>>> The real answer to such a thing is to have a rule that prevents the
>>call from looping out in the first place.
>>
>>On our sipXecs trial system we minimize the chance of such scenarios by
>>using user aliases that are equal to the person's DIDs with dialing
>>prefix. This ensures that the calls made using your colleague's DID are
>>never sent to PSTN and are terminated locally.
>>In the example above if the PSTN prefix is 9 then: 202 has alias 5551202
>>for the purposes of receiving incoming calls and it also has alias
>>95551202 for the purposes of resolving outgoing calls locally.
>>
>>It does not solve the problem entirely since one can still end up with a
>>call between 201 and 202 via ITSP due to call forwarding or far end
>>transfer.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Mark.
>
>
> How can this be made intuitive to an ordinary user / admin?  It seems to me
> that even if there is a fix using smart aliases it does not solve a users
> problem unless is is made easy to use and intuitive to configure. How can
> this be accomplished?
> --martin
>

AT&T conformance testing requires this case to work anyway and hence I
have no choice but to address it. Adds a few states to the B2BUA state
machine but its within reach.

Ranga



-- 
M. Ranganathan
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