[asterisk-users] Re: New T1 Asterisk installation

[Steve Totaro]

Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, David Cook wrote:
>
>> Remember, you don't need to activate all 23 lines so if you just need 15
>> then you can activate only that number. You also can have potentially
>> hundreds of numbers that terminate on this group of lines. This makes
>> some of your coding a little different because you no longer make an
>> association between which port(s) ring and what number the caller
>> dialed to get here.
>>
>> This is called DNIS (Dialed Number Identification System) (people don't
>> flame me for the ANI/DNIS thing OK? Not relevant for this discussion).
>
> Not a flame :)
>
> I think you are referring to DNIS vs DNID.
>
> DNIS (Dialed Number Identification Service) is the number the caller 
> dialed. ANI (Automatic Number Identification) is the number the caller 
> called from.
>
> PRI can also deliver ANI2 (aka Info Digits) which can (if the ANI 
> provider configured it) tell you what type of service the ANI came 
> from -- hospital, hotel, prison, cell, etc.
>
> I've never gotten ANI2 working, so if you have, please enlighten me :)
>
> IMNSHO, PRI beats the !@#$ out of any other T1 flavor.
>
> Thanks in advance,
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> Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
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I used to get ANI2 on some UCN PRIs.  You could see the info in PRI 
Debug (a two digit code) but I am not sure where you can populate that 
data.  I guess you just have to ask your provider for it, I inherited 
that setup.

Thanks,
Steve