[Asterisk-Users] Two companies - One Asterisk???

[Linn Boyd]

Noah,

	You can do exactly this. This is how we do it, we have two different
companies and many different phone numbers this is how we do it before
we send them on to the rest of our dial plan in extensions.conf 

-Linn


[incoming]  ; <-- Should match the context you have

exten => 6464590776,1,Playback(beep)
exten => 6464590776,2,Goto(mainmenu|s|1)
exten => 7134742247,1,Playback(beep)
exten => 7134742247,2,Goto(fractionmainmenu|s|1)
exten => 7136838300,1,Playback(beep)
exten => 7136838300,2,Goto(fractionmainmenu|s|1)
exten => 8002901350,1,Playback(beep)
exten => 8002901350,2,Goto(facgmainmenu|s|1)


On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:00 -0800, Noah Silverman wrote:
> We have two small business that run out of our office.  One business has 
> 3 phone lines, and the other has only one.
> 
> In a perfect world, Asterisk would indicate WHICH line (or group) the 
> outsider caller called, so that we would know which way to answer the 
> phone.  The incoming calls would go through a voice mail menu first - 
> different for each company.  (Press one for sales, two for accounting, 
> etc.)  Whatever they pressed, the correct extension would ring, show the 
> caller id correctly, AND indicate which outside line (or group) the call 
> came in on.
> 
> I'm running the Polycom IP500 phones.  I think, from Noah Miller's 
> suggestion, that there might be a way to use the "line" buttons on the 
> phone.  Tie a group of lines to button one, and a group of lines to 
> button two.  I just don't know HOW to do this.  (For the record, I'm 
> using the Zap interface for incoming POTS lines.)
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> -Noah
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