[Asterisk-Users] Announced Call Transfer

[Olle E. Johansson]

> Asterisk will bridge a call in some cases and not in others. If codec
> conversion is required between phones, its stays in the middle. If the
> two phones can agree upon a common codec, etc, * is not in the middle
> from a pure communications perpective. In that particular case, what
> the phone does when the # key is press is totally a function of how the
> phone was programmed (and not asterisk). If the phone, as an example only,
> has an implementation bug that says I'm not going to forward the # key to
> asterisk during a conversation, obviously * can't interpret it.
Good explanation. Gratefully stolen to the Wiki. Thank you!
See http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+SIP+media+path

/O