[Asterisk-Users] Softphone - Freeware?!

[Eric Bart]

Thanks

I don't understand why sipura can do consultative transfer
and why grandstream can't. They're both SIP, aren't they ?

> If you want consultative transfers with asterisk, you can sort of have 
> it by using parking: you can dial '#' to transfer, then send the call to 
> the parked calls extension, and the parked extension will be read back 
> to you. Then you hangup and talk to the extension you want the call to 
> be transferred: 'you have Bob on the extension 702'. The other party can 
> now dial that extension and talk to Bob. Its not a consultative transfer 
> as regular phone users are accustomed, but it works.

That's how my app work. Except that it's automatic. Blind transfer
to 76 for parking. Blind transfer to 77 for "unparking" to the
second party.

> Maybe your application cann fill the gap for sip devices that are not 
> capable of consultative transfers by themselves...


Yep. Maybe I'll add conferencing transfer. Blind transfer to
74 will put everyone in a conf. As soon as one quits the conf,
the conf will turn down to a normal call.