[Asterisk-Users] attended call transfer

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Richard Perini wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:35:56PM -0500, John Novack wrote:
>> That certainly is the way it SHOULD work. Blind and attended transfer 
>> should be able to be initiated the same way.  It certainly is the most 
>> efficient logical way. Attended transfer should revert to blind simply 
>> by the initiating party hanging up.
>> Most "legacy" hybrid key/pbx systems work that way, and have for many a year
>> Most users expect transfer to work that way.
>>
>> I would consider that a defect or bug, not a new feature request.
> 
> Absolutely.  I have never used a conventional PBX system that didn't 
> behave that way (or wasn't able to be programmed to do so).  I'm in
> my early days of trialling Asterix, and our first application will be
> an internal intercompany/interoffice tie-line system where the transfer
> feature will be rarely required.  Certainly this issue would be a 
> show-stopper for full PBX replacement for us in the future.

As I understand it, these issues only apply to DTMF based transfers. 
Why not use the transfer feature of your IP Phone or the Zap FXS port?