I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or Asterisk-way to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. I come from traditional computer telephony where there are buses such as MVIP, with streams and timeslots. Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing a new extension". I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation: User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music through the phone. User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some weather forecast IVR. Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B to start talking to each other. This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them are already inside the system. I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the Asterisk way? BarZ
On 2006-08-17 23:12:29 -0700, Barzilai <barcho@creacion.com.uy> said:> I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or > Asterisk-way to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. > I come from traditional computer telephony where there are buses such > as MVIP, with streams and timeslots. > Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing a > new extension". > > I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation: > > User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music > through the phone. > User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some > weather forecast IVR. > Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B > to start talking to each other. > > This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them > are already inside the system. > > I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the Asterisk way?What about a transfer?
Barzilai wrote:> I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or > Asterisk-way to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. > I come from traditional computer telephony where there are buses such > as MVIP, with streams and timeslots. > Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing > a new extension". > > I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation: > > User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music > through the phone. > User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some > weather forecast IVR. > Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B > to start talking to each other. > > This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them > are already inside the system. > > I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the > Asterisk way? > > BarZ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-usersIf you transfered them both to a meetme, they could both talk, meetme can also dynamicly create the room, so you could try to use that. Christopher Dobbs
What are trying to do is bridge 2 existing channels, the only thing that can do it right now is meetme. There has been a lot of talk on this list about this, but it still doesn't exist (at least in stable) in Asterisk. On 8/18/06, Barzilai <barcho@creacion.com.uy> wrote:> I still haven't figured out what is the "best practices" or Asterisk-way > to do traditional switching between channels in Asterisk. I come from > traditional computer telephony where there are buses such as MVIP, with > streams and timeslots. > Asterisk, being born as a PBX solves most of the problems by "dialing a > new extension". > > I'll present a ridiculous and hypothetical situation: > > User A has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some music > through the phone. > User B has already dialed into Asterisk and is listening to some weather > forecast IVR. > Event X happens (the Moon has aligned with Saturn) so we want A and B to > start talking to each other. > > This doesn't involve DIALING a NEW extension, I guess... both of them > are already inside the system. > > I can think of some convoluted way to do it; how do I do it the Asterisk > way? > > BarZ > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >