Display inbound number being called

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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We’re looking at implementing Asterisk, but have a major need:
We need the inbound number being called to be displayed on the phone’s LCD. We’re a small call center and need to be able to answer the phone with a different greeting depending on which company’s phone number the caller is dialing. For example, if someone calls 555-1111, then we need to have that show up on the phone’s LCD and we answer “Thanks for calling ABCD”; if they call 555-2222, then we answer “Thanks for calling XYZ”.

My questions:

  1. Can this be done via Asterisk?
  2. What would it take to do this? (configuration/equipment)
  3. Will this work with any VoIP phones or ADSI phones? Or, do we need a special phone that can display this data?

Thanks!

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Yes, this is indeed possible by setting the callerid variable in iax.conf or zapata.conf.

So, amongst other settings you would have something like this in your iax.conf:

[company-abc]
callerid=“Company ABC” <123456789>

It will then override the incoming callerid with the name/number specified.

Cheers.