[asterisk-users] Asterisk forward call

[John Novack]

Call forwarding ALWAYS sends a partial ring to the line. This is by 
design from ESS 1 days, and serves to remind the party that the line is 
forwarded.
Asterisk certainly can be configured to ignore the first ring in any 
number of ways.

John Novack

Guy Gold wrote:
> On Tue,May 15 02:00:PM, motty.cruz wrote:
>    
>> Hello All,
>> My Asterisk server is working fine except that at night I forward my number
>> to another phone number, however my asterisk server still rings once before
>> call is forward. My Local Phone provider is ATT and they said that there is
>> not way around it, I'm always going to get a partical ring.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to stop the Asterisk from rining once before forward to
>> another number?
>>      
> Hi Motty,
> I'm assuming that you're forwarding calls unconditionally, yes ?
>
> I haven't tested it for a while, but, I'm pretty sure that if
> your PBX is not told to ring a device before forwarding the call, it
> should not do so.
> I do recall having worked in  a non-PBX office , and when we
> performed CFWD, the local phone would ring once and then get
> forwarded, but, that's because the local phone never took control
> of the call coming from the carrier. In your case , the PBX can
> take over the call, never produce a ring , and then dial the CFWD
> number. I guess a trace of this instance can be useful .
>
>
> Guy Gold
>
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