[asterisk-users] Fwd: [asterisk-dev] Paging intercom extensions

[Steve Totaro]

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From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Paging intercom extensions
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>


On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:05:19 Gideon Spreeth wrote:
 > The problem comes when we want to make an intercom group page that includes
 > AllPage extensions on more that one server.  The page function does not
 > seem like a viable option as you cannot provide it with extension numbers
 > to dial.
 >
 > Does anyone have an idea how to make such a group call possible?
 > Because of the scale of the system and the idea of setting up groups
 > dynamically, it is not feasible to set up a large enough number of
 > extensions. The idea is to call the all page extension with a softphone
 > that can pass the group numbers to it.

 First of all, this is a -users level question, and you should have posted this
 question there.  And second, you need to look at the Local channel type,
 as it allows you to do exactly that.

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 Tilghman