[asterisk-users] Dial Command Option D Early Bridged

[Al Baker]

How do other applications, such a the automated dialers from telemarketers,
reliably detect when the call has been "answered" ?
I thought this sort of basic functionality that had been around for 
quite awhile.


Jared Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:43 +0800, tcchan wrote:
>   
>> However, in my experience, the timing the call get bridged is not
>> consistance,
>>     
>
> Do you happen to be calling out over an analog phone line?  In the case
> of dialing out an analog line, we have no easy way of knowing when the
> far-end has answered the call, so the call is considered answered at the
> time the call is dialed.
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