[asterisk-biz] General Asterisk Question

[VoIP Street - Todd Routhier]

I believe this is mostly a function of the phone or ATA you choose and 
how configurable it is. I have certainly come across IP phones with no 
send button and of course analog phones hooked up to ATAs don't have 
send buttons.

More than likely you will find some timeout value to set on many of 
these IP phones as well as some other handy settings which will 
accomplish the functionality you are looking for.

For example, within our company we use mostly ATAs instead of IP phones 
due to the lack of good multi-line cordless IP phones available. We use 
Sipura ATAs (SPA2000) with Uniden 2 line cordless phones which are great 
by the way. When I dial a number I normally press the pound sign after I 
dial which acts as a send button. Thing is, I do not have to press send, 
it just speeds up the process. If I wait a few seconds the dial just 
happens automatically without pressing the pound key. I am pretty sure 
that this is just a timeout value which can be set within my adapter.

As far as I know, Asterisk just takes the string of numbers all at once 
and does it's business once the phone/ATA sends them to it.

So, the moral to the story here is that you should probably be looking 
at the configuration of the end user devices rather than Asterisk for 
this functionality.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, I would not want to steer Jim 
in the wrong direction here.

Regards,
 Todd Routhier
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Jim Houser wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Please accept my apologies in advance.  This question may be more suited
> to the user list, but I would have to believe people deploying Asterisk
> professionally have had to deal with this.  I manage an IT department in a
> financial company and am trying to integrate Asterisk into it beside an
> Avaya switch.
>
>    I started playing with AAH and tried a few other GUIs.  Currently I have
> been happiest with the Pound Key build and doing everything manually.  I
> miss some of the GUI but have found this the most flexible for our needs.
>
>   My question my be dumb but I just need to ask.  I've got past basic dial
> plans and adding features.  I currently have Asterisk networked with our
> Avaya S8300 via T1.  I am struggling with H323 but should get past it, (any
> hints are welcome as I can't find much regarding Pound Key).
>
>   My reason for writing is there is one item I would like to improve upon
> but it may be something SIP based and not possible to change.  ???
>
>   The standard "accepted and expected" operation of a PBX, (yes I'm an old
> telecom guy), is for the PBX to collect digits and when it has enough digits
> to fit into a route it selects it and outpulses.  From the end user they
> dial 9, dial tone is not broke as the 9 is just an access code as the PBX is
> waiting for digits, then upon the next digit dial tone is broke digits are
> collected and it dials out when the dialed number fits a route.  Due to the
> route patterns if it fits in 7 digits the dial starts immediately after the
> 7th digit, you already know this...
>
>   On Asterisk, to call out you dial and press send, (for example on my
> Grandstream 2000s - I can't get my Avaya 46XX phones to stay registered on
> Asterisk).  My users see this as "cell phone" operation and somehow that
> lowers their perceived value of Asterisk.  I know, stupid, but it is what it
> is.  Has anyone built a dial plan that emulates the original PBX operation
> at the deskset removing the need to push a send button at the phone?
>
> Thanks, in advance, for any feedback.
> Jim
>
>
>
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