[asterisk-users] Benefit of PRI vs SIP trunk calls

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PRICAUSE will give you lots of info on why a call was hungup on. Not
sure if SIP will give you the same.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jim Dickenson <dickenson at cfmc.com> wrote:
> Does Asterisk, currently using version 1.4, get any more information about the result of an outbound call made over a PRI line compared to a call via a SIP trunk?
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> As an example, in a PRI call there is this message that shows up on the console:
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> [2011-01-05 14:59:02]     -- Channel 23 detected a CED tone from the network.
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> for a call to a fax machine. Does asterisk set anything that a dialplan can access that can know the call was to a fax machine?
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> If a call is placed to a number that is disconnected so a special information tone is played can either a PRI call or a SIP call know this without analyzing the audio stream?
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> Are there reasons to prefer the use of PRI over SIP or SIP over PRI?
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> I would like people's opinions as to if one form is better than the other in any meaningful way.
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> Thanks for you feed-back.
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