James Harper
2006-Dec-14 19:21 UTC
[asterisk-users] bridging calls on a samsung pbx from asterisk
I have the following configuration: VoIP Provider <----> Asterisk <----> Samsung PBX <---> PSTN ^ Asterisk has a few VoIP extensions connected, but most of the extensions are hanging of the Samsung PBX. Asterisk has 1 NT and 1 TE interface, which are connected to a TE and NT interface respectively on the Samsung PBX. This allows us to use the VoIP extensions on Asterisk to make calls to the PSTN, and the Samsung extensions to make calls via the VoIP provider (dial 0 to get PSTN dialtone, and 80 to get VoIP 'dialtone'). One feature I'd like to add is to be able to use a workstation (outlook contacts etc) to start a call between an extension and an outside number (or another extension?), so that Asterisk would ring your extension, and when you picked it up it would then dial the outside line and then connect the channels together. I believe the above feature is all a solved problem under Asterisk, but in my case a Samsung extension to PSTN call would tie up 2 ISDN channels (1 on the NT interface, 1 on the TE interface) for the duration of the call... is it possible for Asterisk to instruct the PBX to internally bridge the calls together, and thus get Asterisk out of the call path? I guess it would have to be a function of the ISDN protocol to allow this sort of thing... I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you can do this if they are both on the same ISDN interface but these are on different interface, and actually different adapters - the NT is a HFCS-USB and the TE is a NetJet. Thanks James