asterisk users - Jan 2010 - Cell phone redialer?

I have an Asterisk 1.4.2 system installed at our office, and have a few 
'on the road' sales people that want to make calls from their cell 
phones in transit, but they are complaining that people returning calls 
that they make from their cell phones are simply just using the CID that 
is coming from the cell phone which is causing them to get phone calls 
outside of business hours.

What I was hoping was that either there was an existing Add-On to 
Asterisk out there for this, or that I could construct something. 
Basically I wanted to see if I could get them to call our phone number 
on Asterisk, enter some special extension and/or enter a passcode, and 
then enter the phone number that they wanted to call in which our phone 
system would route the call to the party but with our caller ID.

Is something like this possible?  I know there are companies out there 
charging for this sort of thing (like SpoofID, etc.) but since we may 
already have the technology in place for this, I was hoping I could roll 
my own 'home grown' version of it.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions USA, Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
www.techsolusa.com
Phone +1-480-451-7440

On 1/29/2010 10:13 AM, Myles Wakeham wrote:
> Basically I wanted to see if I could get them to call our phone number 
> on Asterisk, enter some special extension and/or enter a passcode, and 
> then enter the phone number that they wanted to call in which our phone 
> system would route the call to the party but with our caller ID.

you're looking for DISA.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+DISA

Example 2 should slip right into your extensions.conf.

-- 

Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./

Try this
- exten => 393,1,noop(forward this call)
- exten => 393,n,authenticate(7277,a)
- exten => 393,n,Read(custno,customerphone,11,skip,5,1)
- exten => 393,n,Dial(DAHDI/1,w${custno},30,mKkg)
- exten => 393,n,Playback(vm-goodbye)
- exten => 393,n,Hangup

This will require the caller to enter a password to be able to dial, then
enter the number to call.  Then Asterisk will call the number he entered and
present the callerid as your DAHDI/1 ID.

The main drawback to this approach is that DAHDI/1 would have to be
available; you could "fix" this with your telco.

Untested - YMMV 
--
Danny Nicholas
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Myles Wakeham
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:13 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] Cell phone redialer?

I have an Asterisk 1.4.2 system installed at our office, and have a few 
'on the road' sales people that want to make calls from their cell 
phones in transit, but they are complaining that people returning calls 
that they make from their cell phones are simply just using the CID that 
is coming from the cell phone which is causing them to get phone calls 
outside of business hours.

What I was hoping was that either there was an existing Add-On to 
Asterisk out there for this, or that I could construct something. 
Basically I wanted to see if I could get them to call our phone number 
on Asterisk, enter some special extension and/or enter a passcode, and 
then enter the phone number that they wanted to call in which our phone 
system would route the call to the party but with our caller ID.

Is something like this possible?  I know there are companies out there 
charging for this sort of thing (like SpoofID, etc.) but since we may 
already have the technology in place for this, I was hoping I could roll 
my own 'home grown' version of it.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Myles

-----------------------------
Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions USA, Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
www.techsolusa.com
Phone +1-480-451-7440


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