[asterisk-users] where did the switch statement come from?

[Anthony Francis]

The Switch statement is used to bring any external dialplan 
configuration into an asterisk context, such as realtime configs and 
even DUNDI.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-DUNDi

To answer your actual question.

Rizwan Hisham wrote:
> where can i find details about both switch statement and dundi.
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Alexander Lopez <Alex.Lopez at opsys.com 
> <mailto:Alex.Lopez at opsys.com>> wrote:
>
>     The switch statement allows you to 'include' a context from
>     another machine into your machine.
>
>      
>
>     Problems with it was if the other machine was unavailable, or even
>     slow to respond, your machine would hang until it timed out.
>
>      
>
>     DUNDI has since replaced the functionality of the switch statement
>     and given you so much more in return
>
>      
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>     *Subject:* [asterisk-users] where did the switch statement come from?
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>
>     Hi all,
>     I have looked up the applications and function in asterisk but i
>     could not find the help for the switch statement which is used in
>     several places in sample extensions.conf file. i am using asterisk
>     1.4.2. <http://1.4.2.> On voip-info.org <http://voip-info.org> the
>     switch statement seems to be used to connect 2 asterisk servers,
>     but i could not find a satisfactory explanation for the this
>     statement. Can anybody help me understand the switch statement?
>
>     -- 
>     Best Regards
>     Rizwan Hisham
>
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