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QBZappy:
gobluelou,
You might get lucky. There are a few good Samaritans on this board who may give you your answer if you wait a while, or the OBi people might chime in with a confirmation since it is basically a pre sales question.
RonR:
Quote from: gobluelou on September 12, 2011, 06:15:19 pm
if you do a forward on busy, and then the next line is also busy, can that obi forward to the next? In other words, can it forward a forward?
The OBi doesn't really 'forward' calls. It makes a totally new outgoing call and bridges the old incoming call to the new outgoing call. Both individual calls remain in effect, 'spliced' together. Consequently, there should be no problem chaining a call on and on.
QBZappy:
An afterthought,
I'm not certain what CID you will end up with on the calls being forwarded. OBi v 1.3 new feature spoofs CID on a forked call if it is passed over the OBi to another OBi or OBiAPP. I'm not certain if it also passes CID on forwarded calls. I can not test this for you.
RonR:
The change in v1.3 was for bridged calls, not just forked calls:
- Allow Caller-id spoofing for calls bridged via OBiTALK service.
Consequently, CallerID is passed on forwarded calls via the OBiTALK service.
Keep in mind that each OBi is limited to 4 simultaneous bridges.
It will also be necessary to disable Call Waiting on the PHONE Port and OBiTALK service MaxSessions will have to be increased past 2 (at least in OBi #2).
Now, having clarified some of the OBi's features and limitations, I think this whole idea hasn't been thought through:
If four OBi's each have different PSTN telephone numbers from Google Voice, the first (main) number can only handle a maximum of 2 sessions. After two calls to the main number, callers to that number will get a busy. The only way the other three Google Voice numbers will be used is if someone explicitly calls them. Only the first two OBi's will get used for calls from the main number.
If you use a VoIP provider on the first OBi that supports four sessions on the DID associated with it, then the second, third, and fourth caller can be passed off to subsequent OBi's as each OBi's PHONE Port becomes busy. In this case, you ony have one main number and no additional numbers to deal with. All calls come into the first OBi only.
It's also an easy task to route outgoing calls from the other three OBi's through the first OBi that has the VoIP provider configured on it.
QBZappy:
Quote from: RonR on September 12, 2011, 07:34:25 pm
If four OBi's each have different PSTN telephone numbers from Google Voice, the first (main) number can only handle a maximum of 2 sessions. After two calls to the main number, callers to that number will get a busy. The only way the other three Google Voice numbers will be used is if someone explicitly calls them. Only the first two OBi's will get used for calls from the main number.
This scenario is possible if you get more than two calls at the same time. The third simultaneous call will get the busy or GV VM. The timing of the calls is important. With call waiting disabled on the OBi#1, the second call should be call forwarded (rolled over) to the next OBi, freeing up the second voice channel on GV. In a home office/small business setup it might be very unlikely to get that many calls at the same time. Worst case the missed call will go to VM. It probably is a workable solution considering the minimal costs of using GV and likelihood of receiving that many simultaneous calls.
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