It would be possible if Asterisk sent a remote-party-id back to the calling phone.
Polycom and Sipura phones (possibly Cisco phones) Support this with SIP on Broadworks and it works great. --Shane Quoting "Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It is not possible to do this the way you want. Most phones will > display the called name if that name/number is in the phone's directory. > > Peder @ NetworkOblivion wrote: >> We have users with Cisco 7900 phones running sip. When user A calls >> user B, we want user B's name to appear on user A's phone. It shows the >> extension they call, but not the internal name of the called user. Is >> this possible? We have some people that used to be on an MGCP based >> system and they would get the callee's name popup on their phone when >> they called someone. I can't figure out if it is possible or if it is >> just a limitation of the Cisco SIP firmware. >> >> Just to clarify with an example: >> >> 1 - Steve >> 2 - David >> >> David calls ext 1. Right now it says "calling 1". We want it to say >> "calling Steve 1". > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > --Shane _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
