[Freeswitch-users] How to call multi gateways for failover with early media?

[Steve Underwood]

Brian West wrote:
> Say you call billy, mary and ken at the same time.  Billy's address  
> provides early media (ringing) you are to give the first one to  
> respond with media to the caller... but if by chance Mary's phone  
> provider is having a problem and they give congestion 20 seconds later  
> and actually answer the call to do this cuz you know how stupid  
> telco's are... now you are to give the caller the congestion tone...  
> So you had prefect ringing.. then congestion... I think we have all be  
> there, heard that!
>   

Er, that's not stupidity. If the regulations allow them to answer at 
this point, they will. It generates revenue. Its a disaster for a lot of 
services which need to know if the call was answered to tell what to do 
next, but it ain't done through stupidity. We are the stupid suckers who 
pay.

Steve