<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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>> ** Call Fwd by PBX with LED indication (not phone based callfwd which<br>
>> sucks).<br>
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> Some IP phones support this<br>
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</div>Which ones?</blockquote><div> </div><div>With Thomson ST2030, using telnet, you can for instance :<br>- check current forwarding status (is it forwarded ? toward which number ?),<br>- and change forwarding status.<br>
In this case, forwarding is still distributed but its negative consequences are, IMHO, mitigated with dialplan magic.<br><br>You should also be able to centralize forwarding with phone's StarCodes and ServiceMonitoring features (but I've not tried it yet) : instead of using phone GUI to turn on or off or monitor forwarding, the phone will send INVITE or SUBSCRIBE with appropriate data.<br>
<br>With High end XML supporting business phones, it shouldn't be too hard to tune GUI.<br></div></div><br><br>To illustrate what I meant, I recently asked a customer to send me an Alcatel user manual.<br>Though I haven't implemented it yet, I couldn't any feature I couldn't mimic with Asterisk/SIP Phones.<br>
Sure, it's a huge effort for 1 customer.<br><br>Could you easily have a Panasonic user manual in english ?<br>If so, if you could send it to me off-list, I would be very curious to dig deeper into it and discover interactions we could or couldn't mimic with Asterisk.<br>
<br><br>Cheers</div>