[Asterisk-Users] Is this possible?

[tmassey at obscorp.com]

Paul wrote:

>I'd like to setup my Asterisk box to receive a call on the incoming POTS
>line and immediately redirect back out to connect to another phone 
number.
>Im thinking I could use either the threeway feature of that POTS line, or 
a
>second POTS connected to a different FXO card. Does ANYONE know if this 
is
>possible and if so, how it's accomplished?

Three way calling would be interesting (and maybe impossible), but doing 
that with two POTS lines (or a POTS line and a VoIP provider, or just a 
VoIP provider, even) is trivial with Asterisk.

You would accept the call from line #1 and dial out via line #2 to 
whoever.  When the remote end picks up, the calls are bridged.  Asterisk 
does this all day long.  In fact, it's really one of the only two things 
Asterisk does (the other being play audio for and receive audio from a 
channel).  It's incredible the amazing things you can do with a system 
that, in the end, really only does those two things!

Tim Massey