Profile is a collection of preferences uses by conferences etc.<br>In the case of SIP a profile is also the name for the resulting SIP UA created by a particular profile.<br><br>Context is a narrowed down view of something, in the case of the dialplan a context is a set of extensions.  It&#39;s like having a dedicated set of extensions per distinct context name like parallel universes.  both the foo context and the bar context can have extension 2001.<br>
 <br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Fred-145 <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:codecomplete@free.fr">codecomplete@free.fr</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hello<br>
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I&#39;m a bit confused at the difference between those two concepts. Contexts<br>
are created in the /dialplan, and are refered to by items in /SIP_profiles<br>
and extensions in /directory.<br>
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What purpose do contexts and profiles play?<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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