[Asterisk-Users] Multi Asterisk Server Transfers

[Michael Graves]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:24:30 +1100, Mike Sander wrote:

>I agree with you. If every office had a * server, it would be fine.
>
>i.e. Office 1 rings office 2, then gets transferred to office 3, then
>connection is direct from office 1 to 3, and 2 releases all contact.
>
>However, what if office 3 is a 1 person office, with just a single SIP phone
>connected to the VoIP provider. Full IAX trunking can do hand-offs quite
>simply, I think, but when the destination is a single SIP connection, things
>get messy.
>
>Is this relevant to your answer, because I'm a little confused now?
>
>With thanks
>

If one office has only a single SIP phone then you don't trunk to them
via IAX. You let them connect directly to the ITSP for their
outgoing/incomming PSTN calls. You program dialplan logic on your *
boxen to connect to that SIP extension via IP. 

You could get them a free SIP account like FWD, SIPPhone, etc and use
that to setup presets for calling from that extension to your other
offices directly via IP. It'd take more of a phone than a Grandstream,
but then they're pretty simple for business use anyway. I like my
Polycom IP600. I also like my Zultys 4x5.

If the end, if it were my project, I'd look into Asterisk on a small
form factor/embedded system like a Soekris Engineering box...even for
single extension offices. That'd give you a low cost way to offer
comparable programmability and dialplan logic in all cases. Also local
voicemail, if that's of any value.

Michael
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