[VoIP] Question on connecting old dial telephone

[Greg Blakely]

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> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of Duncan Smith
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:58 PM
> To: CNET List
> Cc: Phil Braverman
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Question on connecting old dial telephone
> 
> 
> Isn't it possible to have Asterisk place a call immediately 
> on off-hook?  I don't know if they're using Asterisk, but on 
> the front desk at one of my local hospitals is a set which, 
> when picked up, puts the caller directly into a queue to 
> speak to an operator.  I would think that such a use (as a 
> "hot-line") would be rather common.
> 
Yes, it is 'hotline' capable.  It's what I use for my candlestick phone.
It would be possible to do a ringdown to a trunk, with no digits dialed.
That'll give you dial tone, but I don't think that it is possible to
then pulse dial across the connection into the seized trunk.  Touchtone
works, but pulse???  I don't imagine that it would.

Anyone know for sure?