[asterisk-users] Multiple contacts.

[Alex Balashov]

Sam,

Thank you for the suggestion.  That is pretty much what I ended up doing
for myself anyway;  the real issue is standardising it and doing it on a
mass scale for all users of a platform.

-- Alex

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Lutgring, Sam wrote:

> Alex;
>
> I would suggest simply registering them as separate or unique phones and
> then ringing multiple phones from the same extension using the "&".
> This way both phones will ring and you can answer based on which one is
> local to you.  I do this with my desk phone and my X-lite soft phone.
> Here is what it looks like:
>
> SIP.CONF
> [sam-X-1433]; This is my X-lite phone
> type=friend
> username=sam-X-1433
> -SNIP-
>
> [sam-G-1433]; This is my desk phone
> type=friend
> username=sam-G-1433
> -SNIP-
>
> EXTENSIONS.CONF
> exten => 1433,1,Dial(SIP/sam-G-1433&SIP/sam-X-1433,22,Tt)
>
> Hope you find this to be useful.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> Balashov
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:58 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Multiple contacts.
>
>
> Well, setting up queues for every user is one option, but it's
> troublesome.
>
> Also, nearly all commercial VoIP origination platforms I've seen,
> including that of a former Vonage-like employer, support concurrent
> contacts in their registrar.
>
> I guess to really do this as a matter of implementational fact, one
> would have to either modify the Asterisk source somewhat extensively, or
> use a separate service to actually hold the contacts that does allow
> concurrent registrants, such as OpenSER.  Sort of like a homespun
> session border controller.
>
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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Tel    : +1-678-954-0670
Direct : +1-678-954-0671