Simultaneous Ring Feature (Alpha)

[caseydoug]

I don't like the "confirm calls" feature, although I have no problem with having it as an option. Lingo was able to route calls to Lingo voicemail even when simulring went to the cell phone and the cell phone forwarded back to Lingo. I don't know how they did it, but it worked. Lingo did have the disadvantage, however, that calls would go straight to Lingo voicemail when the cell phone was turned off (so I kept it on).

[fisamo]

Admittedly, as much as I whine for the feature, I completely understand that many people do NOT want to have to press 1 to take a call. I also have to admit that I am using my line with Asterisk and will continue to do so. As such, I should be able to program in simulring (with additional outbound trunks if necessary) to work exactly the way I want it to.

[VOIPoTim]

Admittedly, as much as I whine for the feature, I completely understand that many people do NOT want to have to press 1 to take a call. I also have to admit that I am using my line with Asterisk and will continue to do so. As such, I should be able to program in simulring (with additional outbound trunks if necessary) to work exactly the way I want it to.

The biggest challenge with doing a "Press 1" scenario is that we'd basically have to handle the audio for all those calls so it was stateful and we could detect the 1.

With our system we don't handle audio 90% of the time and just hand off calls.

Handling audio would be a big increase in load and the quality would be different (could be better or worse) on incoming calls when compared to normal non-simring calls.

[fisamo]

The biggest challenge with doing a "Press 1" scenario is that we'd basically have to handle the audio for all those calls so it was stateful and we could detect the 1.

With our system we don't handle audio 90% of the time and just hand off calls.

Handling audio would be a big increase in load and the quality would be different (could be better or worse) on incoming calls when compared to normal non-simring calls.

That's a great point--I obviously hadn't considered that. Is it possible to do a REINVITE after the user presses 1 (to offload the audio once the call is accepted)?

It's pretty easy for me to say something like 'I do this all the time on my Asterisk system...' (which is true). But I do recognize that my Asterisk system handles essentially one production-level 'phone line' (plus my hobby stuff) for one family--quite a difference from a real-world provider situation!