For incoming calls on your POTS lines you need to have your telco provide the busy rollover (sometimes called "hunt"). This is a common feature available from the telco when you have several phone lines. The idea is that if someone calls a phone number associated with a line that is in use, rather than getting a busy signal, the telco will hunt for the next available line, and the call will be connected on that line. The process is repeated until the call is connected to an available line or all lines are busy and a busy signal will be delivered by the phone company.
When dealing with these analog POTS lines on Asterisk, you will have a chanel for each line. Asterisk will recieve a ring on one of several lines. You can configure Asterisk to handle calls from any of these lines in the same way (have them start in the same "context"), which will effectively recreate this hunt group for incoming calls on Asterisk. If you get your inbound calls from a VoIP provider, it is another story. Generally if the provider support multiple simultaneous calls on a single number, they will all come in on the same chanel. Both SIP and IAX (VoIP chanel types) support this. This may be refered to as trunking. I've siplified some of this, but this should give you some good keywords to look for as you read through the Wiki. ~Adam On 10/05/05, chawki hammoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Tim Litwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your pstn land line can only handle 1 call at a time > > > > To handle more at the same number you need a > > rollover or busy redirect. > > Then you could forward the next calls to another > > number. Either more > > land lines or a voip provider number. > > Please help me understand this. > Lets's say I have three land lines connected to my * > box and I have my VOIP provider setup to accept more > than one call simultaneously. If people dialed one > telephone number and it was busy, Can Asterisk detect > a busy signal and forward the call to one of the other > two landlines? > > Thanks a lot > > Yahoo! Mail > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: > http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
