[asterisk-users] Show Callee name on Display

[Shane Young]

It would be possible if Asterisk sent a remote-party-id back to the  
calling phone.

Polycom and Sipura phones (possibly Cisco phones) Support this with  
SIP on Broadworks and it works great.

--Shane

Quoting "Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling" <eric at fnords.org>:

> It is not possible to do this the way you want.  Most phones will
> display the called name if that name/number is in the phone's directory.
>
> Peder @ NetworkOblivion wrote:
>> We have users with Cisco 7900 phones running sip.  When user A calls
>> user B, we want user B's name to appear on user A's phone.  It shows the
>> extension they call, but not the internal name of the called user.  Is
>> this possible?  We have some people that used to be on an MGCP based
>> system and they would get the callee's name popup on their phone when
>> they called someone.  I can't figure out if it is possible or if it is
>> just a limitation of the Cisco SIP firmware.
>>
>> Just to clarify with an example:
>>
>> 1 - Steve
>> 2 - David
>>
>> David calls ext 1.  Right now it says "calling 1".  We want it to say
>> "calling Steve 1".
>
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--Shane