[Asterisk-Users] Trunk Seize - Line 1 - CO1: Does it exist in an Asterisk environment?

[Peter Svensson]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Michael Loftis wrote:

> --On Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:28 PM +1000 Ben Ryan 
> <ben.ryan at forrestcomputing.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I have a question probably for those in the know in business Asterisk
> > solutions. I have searched high and low but have not been able to get
> > any answers. I hope there is someone on the list that can answer my
> > question.
> >
> > How do you implement "trunk seize"? This is a feature that is almost
> > universal in the conventional PBX world.
> 
> Not PBX, Key System.  See Call Parking.  You park the call by doing a 
> consultative/supervised transfer to a special extension.  The Park app then 
> reads back a number, this is the parked extension number.  You then give 
> this number, and anyone in the right context can dial the number into their 
> handset (SIP, IAX, or otherwise) and be connected to the parked caller.

Since almost all pbx:es are hybrid systems most of them allow what the OP
wanted. In fact, most of it can be implemented using Asterisk and
SuperValetParking, contexts etc. 

Something like supervaletparking in the standard Asterisk would be great.

Peter