[VoIP] Asterisk Programming Technique

[Mark Rudholm]

Oh, one more note, the way one friend of mine with a lot of
various services and direct connections to various other
Asterisk boxes is to set up fake FGD-style 10XXX codes
to direct routing.

I find that a bit cumbersome myself, so I just use
*X codes for stuff like that.  Then again, I've abandoned
1+ dialing too (it's all 10D now) so YMMV.

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> The problem is that FWD numbers don't all start with 7, so when
> Lee says FWD numbers are five or six digits, he'll be dialing
> 7+5D or 7+6D, so it's impossible to distinguish between a
> 7+6D FWD call and a 7XX-XXXX CNET call.
> 
> I think he should use _*7XXXXX. for FWD calls, and
> _NXXXXXX for CNET calls (which is what he's already doing, I
> imagine)
> 
> -Mark
> 
> Shane Young wrote:
>> Oh, that's easy then.
>>
>> exten => _7xxxx,1,macro(dial-fwd)
>> exten => _7xxxxx,1,macro(dial-fwd)
>> exten => _7xxxxxx,1,macro(dial-cnet)
>>
>> This should dial immediately when you dial a 7-digit CNET number  
>> starting with "7".  If you dial a 5 or 6 digit number starting with  
>> "7" it will wait for a bit to see if you are done  dialing.  If no  
>> more digits are entered, then it will fire off the macro for fwd.
>>
>>
>> Quoting Lee Spenadel <lee at spenadel.com>:
>>
>>> Shane,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to avoid implementing an NPA to my dialing plan.  FWD numbers are
>>> 5 - 6 digits.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
>>> Shane Young
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:35 PM
>>> To: voip at ckts.info
>>> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Asterisk Programming Technique
>>>
>>> My asterisk box is my home PBX first and CNET tandem second.
>>>
>>> What I do is assign the generic area code "200" to north american CNET.
>>>
>>> If I want to call a CNET number, I dial 1-200-NXX-XXXX.  200 isn't
>>> assigned in north america, so it works good for me.
>>>
>>> How many digits are in yoru free world dialup numbers? (I haven't used
>>> FWD in many years)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Lee Spenadel <lee at spenadel.com>:
>>>
>>>> To you savvy Asterisk programmers out there, I have a question.   What is
>>> a
>>>> good way to branch out a call to a particular SIP service, like FWD in a
>>>> dial plan?  What I mean by this is that I want to be able to dial 7 in my
>>>> PBX so that I can send out calls to FWD via that route, yet still reach
>>> CNET
>>>> members whose office codes are 7XX.  I know I can wild card a command such
>>>> as
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _71.,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> so that FWD calls go out that way, but I'm wondering if there's a way to
>>> use
>>>> some sort of delay with the ignorepat command so that if I dial 7 and
>>> wait,
>>>> say 1 second, those calls go out via FWD, yet if there is no delay in
>>>> dialing the digits the call goes out via CNET.  I know that the ignorepat
>>>> command only disables the cancellation of dial tone for that dialed digit,
>>>> but I'm looking to emulate a PBX where you dial, say 9, to get an outside
>>>> line to reach the PSTN, which is how I had my FWD access setup.  But now
>>>> there are 7XX CNET numbers that I need to contend with. I'm thinking that
>>>> I'll have to have a unique code like *9, *8, etc for each SIP service that
>>> I
>>>> want to send calls out on.  Constructive comments welcome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Lee