[ale] Asterisk Success

[Christopher Fowler]

I guess the only way I could control my hunt group is by extension.  Sp
I group all lines of the T1 under one phone number.  I then use
extenstions to route them.

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:23 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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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