[Asterisk-Users] A good SIP receptionist phone

[Sven Fischer (support)]

On Monday 02 May 2005 20:10, Pedro wrote:
> What I did once was create an announcement that got played to the
> receptionist announcing who the call was for based on the number that
> was called.  This allowed the receptionist to know which greeting to
> recite.

Cool idea !

>
> On 5/2/05, Michael Welter <mike at introspect.com> wrote:
> > Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> > > The user name is the extension and the password is always the same. Not
> > > hard to configure.
> >
> > With the SNOM 220, you have five buttons/lamps that can be used as
> > "line" appearances--these buttons can each register to a different SIP
> > URL.
> >
> > Each sidecar has 20 buttons/lamps, and you may have up to three
> > sidecars.  Using the "hint" priority in Asterisk, the buttons serve as
> > extension busy lamps.  You can also use these buttons to transfer calls.
> >
> > I have an executive suites customer where each tenant is a separate
> > business.  For an incoming call, the attendant needs to know which DID
> > number is being called so she can answer with the proper greeting.
> >
> > I would like the sidecar buttons to be able to register to a SIP URL, so
> > an incoming call would blink the tenants button, but that is not
> > possible--I can only use the five buttons on the phone for that purpose,
> > and there are more than five tenants.
> >
> > A suggestion was to alter the Called ID Name to the DID number.  This
> > would work for the attendant, but the tenant would like to see the
> > original Caller ID Name.
> >
> > I would rather not have to put a PC at the attendants position, but that
> > is the way this is shaping up.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
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