Hi All,

I am familiar with Asterisk and doing some testing for my next project. I have had some difficulties Asterisk, and now researching FreeSwitch hoping that it has some out-of-the box answers for my questions.

Basically I want to implement a Click 2 Call service. Very simple, user types in his/her number on a website, that number is called, after it's answered, the company number is called and they are bridged together.

1) Is there a way to communicate with FreeSwitch programatically and issue commands such as initiate calls etc ? (ver much like manager API in Asterisk)

2) If you initiate a call from the software and then once its answered call a 2nd number. How do you bridge them?

3) After the 2 numbers talk and hang up. How does your cdr look like? Do you have 2 cdr's that correspond to both calls or just 1 after both numbers are bridged together? This is one of the problems I can't solve with Asterisk as it generates only 1 cdr after the 2 calss are bridged. The reason for this request is, in case of a Click2Call service, you are charged for both calls by your SIP provider therefore you need to be able to track both calls for invoices/payments etc.

4) Is there a way to programatically know if a call has been asnwered or not and act based upon that. I understand the cdr contains that information. But what I want is, if the call is not answered maybe I can play a prerecorded message or take them to the voicemail or whatnot. So I need a way to do a flow-control based on if the call has been asnwered or not in the dialplan. Does that exist? If so can you point me to some resources?

Thanks,

Vito A.