[asterisk-users] Sip Phone CID

[Mark Johnson]

Rob Schall wrote:
> This might sound like an odd question.... but here it is anyways...
>
> We currently have Polycom 501 phones. We have Asterisk with
> Realtime/MySQL running for our SIP/Voicemail/Extensions. When one phone
> dials another, the receiving end does in fact see the callers ID. But...
> our old phone system set the caller id on the senders phone to show who
> they called.
>
> Example...
>
> If Sally calls Jim, then Sally's phone should just say "1001", it should
> say "Jim <1001>".
>
>
> Any know if this is possible. Our old PBX did this, and the bosses were
> curious if this is possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>   
I have tried over and over to figure out how to do this and it doesn't 
seem possible at the moment.  I know this can be done with chan_sccp and 
maybe even chan_skinny (haven't tried that in a few years), but you'd 
need Cisco phones to do it.  Is this something on anyone's To-Do list?

Thanks,

Mark