[asterisk-users] Caller ID on Transfers

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Lytle [mailto:support at drdos.info]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:37 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Caller ID on Transfers
> 
> 
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
> >> talking to).  Blind transfers show the original caller.
> >>     
> >
> > Doesn't seem to be happening that way with Polycom phones 
> and blind/attended transfers.
> > Both are showing the original calling party caller id.
> > _______________________________________________
> >   
> 
> I can confirm this.
> 
> Both Attended and Blind transfers show the same Caller ID 
> (That of the 
> person doing the transfer).
> 
> DOug

Hi Doug. Your doing your transfers with the transfer keys on the Polycom, right? So am I. I think a distinction needs to be made here. I get the impression that most people, and certainly the others are using #1 and #2 to do Asterisk assisted transfers. 

When we initiated transfers with #1, the caller id of the original caller is sent to the destination, and when we do #2, the caller id of the transferring party is sent to the destination. However, when using the transfer key on the polycom phone, and doing both attended and unattended transfers, the caller id of the original party is sent to the destination.

We want to use our transfer buttons on the phones!

It appears that asterisk is treating the sequence of SIP messages from polycom phones, such that it thinks all transfers are attended transfers, for the purposes of caller id 'pass-thru'.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Doug.