[asterisk-users] Re: Equivalent of channel switching?

[Martin Joseph]

On 2006-08-17 23:12:29 -0700, Barzilai <barcho at creacion.com.uy> said:

> I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or 
> Asterisk-way to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. 
> I come from traditional computer telephony where there are buses such 
> as MVIP, with streams and timeslots.
> Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing a 
> new extension".
> 
> I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation:
> 
> User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music 
> through the phone.
> User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some 
> weather forecast IVR.
> Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B 
> to start talking to each other.
> 
> This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them 
> are already inside the system.
> 
> I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the Asterisk way?

What about a transfer?