[ale] Asterisk Success

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:56 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:44 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:45 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:31 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > > How does a PBX help with that?
> > > 
> > > If I ordered a chanalized T1 can I not do the pooling myself.  Can I not
> > > specify that lines 1-5 are at 678-XXX-XXXX?
> > > 
> > It's still done at the supplier end.
> 
> Then Asterisk may not solve what I'm trying to do.

If you want to be able to give out 1 phone number and have any available
line get the call, then Asterisk is not the tool. That is a hunt group
and it is managed by your phone provider.

That said, Asterisk is still an excellent tool for taking the incoming
calls from a T1 line and routing them by specified parameters to
specified end points. 

Most phone providers (at the T1 level) will set up hunt groups as part
of the general service they offer. Even Vonage has a junior hunt group
capability.

Asterisk can't do it because by the time it "sees" the call, the call is
already "on the wire" and can't be rerouted.
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