[Asterisk-Users] Using Asterisk to Find a Live Person

[Bruno Hertz]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:21 -0800, Aaron Glenn wrote:
> That's the least ambiguous subject I could muster. I'm relatively new
> to Asterisk and while I'm certain there is a way to do this, I'm
> unsure how. My question is this: How do I take an incoming call, put
> the person on hold, and in the background (i.e. while they are on
> hold) begin  trying other phone numbers until someone answers?

The feature you are looking for is call queues:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+call+queues

Regards, Bruno.