[asterisk-users] Show Callee name on Display

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Have you ever actually done this with Asterisk?

Shane Young wrote:
> It would be possible if Asterisk sent a remote-party-id back to the  
> calling phone.
> 
> Polycom and Sipura phones (possibly Cisco phones) Support this with  
> SIP on Broadworks and it works great.
> 
> --Shane
> 
> Quoting "Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling" <eric at fnords.org>:
> 
>> It is not possible to do this the way you want.  Most phones will
>> display the called name if that name/number is in the phone's directory.
>>
>> Peder @ NetworkOblivion wrote:
>>> We have users with Cisco 7900 phones running sip.  When user A calls
>>> user B, we want user B's name to appear on user A's phone.  It shows the
>>> extension they call, but not the internal name of the called user.  Is
>>> this possible?  We have some people that used to be on an MGCP based
>>> system and they would get the callee's name popup on their phone when
>>> they called someone.  I can't figure out if it is possible or if it is
>>> just a limitation of the Cisco SIP firmware.
>>>
>>> Just to clarify with an example:
>>>
>>> 1 - Steve
>>> 2 - David
>>>
>>> David calls ext 1.  Right now it says "calling 1".  We want it to say
>>> "calling Steve 1".