[Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly

[John Coll]

Robert and Christian, many thanks for this.

I wish I had known that Grandstream phones would not really work ... but
there, that's what research is about!

Chritian suggests the Polycom phones but the next post in this group says
there is a problem with echo on the Polycoms at present. Based on my
experience to date I don't have the confidence to get a set of Cisco phones
in - I'm glad to hear others are having success though. Well at least the
reality is emerging and I am going to leave any thought of rolling our
Asterisk on hold for 6 months.  I'll revisit eventually because I am sure I
want to use this technology.  I will stick to FWD for a while :)

Again thanks. Hope to see you all in the summer.

john



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Robert Hajime
Lanning
Sent: 06 January 2004 18:38
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly


John,
   Jared is right.  I have a co-worker who has coughed up the money for the
Cisco 7960 SIP phones.  These have a soft button for "Supervised Transfer".
And, it works.

   I only have the Grandstream BT101 phones, and their "Transfer" button
only
implements "Blind Transfer".

   So, to get it to work, you will need to upgrade to non-budget phones.
Not
ideal, but Asterisk does support the feature, just Grandstream does not.

<quote who="Jared Smith">
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 06:20, John Coll wrote:
>> Robert Hajime Lanning:
>>
>> "He is using SIP phones.  Supervised Transfers do not really work with
SIP.
>> He wants, on a SIP phone (I think he had Grandstream phones), to:
>>  o hit "transfer"
>>  o dial new extension
>>  o talk to new extension ***** this part does not work *****
>>  o hit "transfer" to complete the transfer or some cancel button to
abort"
>>
>> Yes that is exactly what I want - thanks for clarifying.
>>
>
> It sounds to me like this is a problem with the Grandstream phones in
> particular, and not Asterisk.  Supervised transfers work *GREAT* with
> the Cisco 7960 phones... I use them almost every day.
>
> Jared Smith
>
>
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