[asterisk-users] Equivalent of channel switching?

[Christopher Dobbs]

Barzilai wrote:
> I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or 
> Asterisk-way to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. 
> I come from traditional computer telephony where there are buses such 
> as MVIP, with streams and timeslots.
> Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing 
> a new extension".
>
> I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation:
>
> User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music 
> through the phone.
> User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some 
> weather forecast IVR.
> Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B 
> to start talking to each other.
>
> This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them 
> are already inside the system.
>
> I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the 
> Asterisk way?
>
> BarZ
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If you transfered them both to a meetme, they could both talk, meetme 
can also dynamicly create the room, so you could try to use that.

Christopher Dobbs