Fwd: [asterisk-users] Multi-registration ?

[Drew Gibson]

Olivier wrote:
>
>     olivier,
>     soft phones on a PC require a port to connect to the
>     server...  haven't
>     tried multiple soft phones, simultaneously, connecting to one
>     server or
>     multiple servers but if you can configure the outgoing port, it should
>     be possible... NAT might get quite confusing so I would try it before
>     making any commitments..
>     as for hard phones, I register my sip phones with two or three
>     servers,
>     one server per extension or two+ extensions with one server...  one or
>     more extensions to one server... if you have 3 extensions you can
>     register those to 1-3 servers as you wish...
>     daveC
>
> But what about several registrations from the same hardphone to the 
> same Asterisk server ?
>
> It might be a simple way to allocate specific behaviour :
> For instance, someone could be both seen as call center staff and 
> post-sales department member.
>
> From dialplan design and maintenance perspective, do you think it 
> would be more simple to associate registration and business assignment ?
>
I tried using multiple accounts from one phone to separate call centre traffic but the phones (Aastra 480i) would default all calls from the phone to the account with the "highest" line number. This made it impractical for my purposes.

regards,

Drew


-- 
Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
www.oanda.com

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