[Asterisk-Users] Called Party Identification

[Olle E. Johansson]

Brent Franks wrote:

> No, but the Caller ID Information for a SIP extension is stored in
> sip.conf, so yes, I did think about that.
> 
> As far as making sense, many meridian systems do this, and it is quite
> helpful.  This could help with the implementation of gastman, and also
> end user phones.  On the Cisco's and Polycom's, when you place a call on
> hold, rather than seeing an extension, you would see the name and you
> could toggle between the calls and see the name, rather than number
> (O.K. that part is a convenience thing).  I know on my Meridian system
> at work, if you accidentally dial the wrong extension, the name pops up
> after it starts ringing, and you know your calling the wrong person.
> You can hang up, or tell the person real quick, hey sorry, I meant to
> call someone else.
It's one thing when you have an internal PBX, but when you open up for
external SIP calls from the Internet - do you really want them to always
get your full name?
Maybe a filter would be good.

Anyway, could you provide a SIP trace of a call setup with this feature?

/O