[Asterisk-Users] Called Party Identification

[Brent Franks]

No, but the Caller ID Information for a SIP extension is stored in
sip.conf, so yes, I did think about that.

As far as making sense, many meridian systems do this, and it is quite
helpful.  This could help with the implementation of gastman, and also
end user phones.  On the Cisco's and Polycom's, when you place a call on
hold, rather than seeing an extension, you would see the name and you
could toggle between the calls and see the name, rather than number
(O.K. that part is a convenience thing).  I know on my Meridian system
at work, if you accidentally dial the wrong extension, the name pops up
after it starts ringing, and you know your calling the wrong person.
You can hang up, or tell the person real quick, hey sorry, I meant to
call someone else.

Not sure why other PBX's do Called Party Identification, but it would
definitely be a nice feature to have, and they have found some use for
putting it in their system.  I'll begin work on it myself, I was just
inquiring as to whether it was implemented or not.

The Polycom phones state in the Admin Guide they support Called Party
ID, but it is a network provided service.  So they found a use for it
too.

Regards,

Brent

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Critchfield
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:29 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Called Party Identification

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 22:40, Brent Franks wrote:
> Does * support Called Party Identification?  Say for example, I dial
> extension 2000, SIP sends back John Doe from the sip.conf file where
> extension 2000 is defined?  Would this violate the SIP RFC?

Maybe you didn't think about the fact that extensions aren't defined in
sip.conf. Also it is possible for many extensions to end up on any
physical phone. So sending essentially caller ID back to the calling
phone doesn't really make sense. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

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