[asterisk-users] Equivalent of channel switching?

[C F]

What are trying to do is bridge 2 existing channels, the only thing
that can do it right now is meetme. There has been a lot of talk on
this list about this, but it still doesn't exist (at least in stable)
in Asterisk.

On 8/18/06, Barzilai <barcho at creacion.com.uy> wrote:
> 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?
>
> BarZ
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