[Asterisk-Users] Little confused about Caller ID

[Alexander Lopez]

OK here it goes..

Caller ID is two parts or actually three:

Part 1	Number only
Part 2	Number + Name
Part 3	Whole lotta stuff (also known as ADSI)


Here is the US, I cannot speak for other countries.

When party A places a call to Party B. Party A's Telco picks up the
number, either from a table on the switch or passed from the PRI from
Party A.  Then on the far side (Party B's Telco) the Telco does a lookup
in the LIDB (Line Information Data Base) and associates a name with a
number. This information is then passed as Part II CLID.

I have simplified the process, leaving out many processes along the way
but it should give some insight as to how the Name actually shows up on
the other end.

Most Telcos do not receive the Name as part of the data in the call
through the tandems b/w Telcos, they opt rather to do the lookup in the
LIDB themselves. 




-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 6:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Little confused about Caller ID

When calling to the PSTN (outside VOIP or *) then you will not be able
to supply the name of callerID even if you have a PRI. The only thing
you can provide is the number and the receiving switch of the call is
the one responsibble for attaching a name to the phone number thru
SS7. If you have a SS7 switch then you could in theory attach the name
(I have never tried it, but that's what I was told).
Hope this helps.



On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 23:23:45 -0500 (EST), Samuel T. Cossette
<digium at muel.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got the Caller ID name and number working with the application
> SetCIDNumber and SetCIDName.
> 
> [...]
> exten => s,3,SetCIDNumber(4183289901)
> exten => s,4,SetCIDName(Frank Black)
> exten => s,5,Dial(IAX2/prov01/${DEST})
> [...]
> 
> You can also use SetCallerID(Frank Black <4183289901>), but no success
for
> me...
> 
> bye,
> 
> Samuel T. Cossette
> samuel at levinux.org, 1.418.8o2.784o
> << Well, that's for me to know and you to find out. >> Jeffrey, Blue
Velvet
> 
> > Hi Everybody,
> >     Sure this has been covered a million times on wiki, but couldn't
find
> > an
> > exact answer to my question.  I am using * to dial out to peoples
phones
> > to
> > give them alerts of different things.  Problem is that the only
Caller ID
> > I
> > can get working is the telephone number.  I am unable to display a
name
> > along with the number.  Thinking maybe its the phone receiving the
call, I
> > tried my cellphone and my house phone and I can only get the number
to
> > display.  If I leave the number portion out, Caller ID shows
> > "Unavailable".
> > Is there a simple way to get a Caller name setup?  I've tried
examples on
> > Wiki as well but I couldn't get them to work.
> >
> >
> > ***** extensions.conf *********
> > [general]
> > static=yes
> > writeprotect=no
> >
> > [globals]
> > CONSOLE=Console/dsp ; Console interface for demo
> > TRUNKMSD=1 ; MSD digits to strip (usually 1 or 0)
> >
> > [sports]
> > exten => s,1,ResponseTimeout,5
> > exten => s,2,Answer
> > exten => s,3,Wait(1)
> > exten => s,4,Playback(sports/gafanaSports)
> > exten => s,5,Goto(2000,2)
> > exten => 2000,1,wait(1)
> > exten => 2000,2,Background(sports/teams/theLosAngelesLakersU)
> > exten => t,1,Playback(goodbye)
> > exten => t,2,Hangup
> >
> > ******** sip.conf ***********
> > [general]
> > context=default
> > port=5060
> > srvlookup=yes
> > allow=ulaw
> > register => [id]:[pw]@[host]
> > [gafana]
> > type=peer
> > secret=[secret]
> > username=[username]
> > host=[hostname]
> >
> >
> > ******* test.call file **********
> > Channel: SIP/[myNumber]@gafana
> > CallerID: [My Number]
> > MaxRetries: 0
> > RetryTime: 300
> > WaitTime: 45
> > Context: sports
> > Extension: s
> > Priority: 1
> >
> >
> > What do I need to add to be able to send a name as well and not just
a
> > number?
> >
> > Gabe
> >
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