[Asterisk-Users] Help - is voip good for in-house calls?

[Peter Svensson]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Francis Augusto Medeiros wrote:

> > Actually, we also have non-fixed phone numbers in Germany. I think this is
> > not weird, I think this is very good. And again, Asterisk supports this.
> 
> Oh, so I how does Asterisk knows when to start dialing out the
> numbers, if there are no rules?

Short answer: either asterisk collects all digits based on a timeout at
the end ("enbloc dialing") or you hand the call over to the pstn as soon
as enough digits are collected (typically "9" or "0") and let the pstn
deal with the remaining digits ("ovarlap dialing").

Peter