[Asterisk-Users] 5 Channel / Trunk ??

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:02, PBX wrote:
> To all Asterisk guru's...
> 
> Here is my question.  
> 
> 1. Asterisk PBX - 5 Trunks / Incoming lines
> 2. 1 Building - 3 Companies (sharing phone system)
> 
> 
> Ok that's the basic layout.  Here's the low down - Each company will
> have one dedicated channel for there company.  The other 2 channels they
> want to be set aside as rollover's (rotary).  That is not an issue.
> Where my concern is, how can I specify if they call Company A and
> primary line is busy and it rolls over to one of the spare lines, how do
> I designate which Auto Attendant is played.  If it was certain channels
> set aside for certain companies that would not be an issue.  
> 
> Any one have any ideas on how to accomplish this.  Is there a way to
> look and see where the call was originally designated for.

Get E&M wink DID lines. The line signals a call, you pick up, X number
of digits are passed in DTMF, and you wink the line and then answer the
line with the appropriate extension signaled. You set these DID numbers
up as a nice Goto that jumps to the appropriate companies start
extension in the appropriate context. This way also all 5 lines can be
used by any company, or you can place counters that would let you play a
message saying something and then hangup to free the line up for your
remaining companies.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>