[Serusers] Getting rid of SIP URI in Caller ID

[Olaf Bergmann]

Charles Ulrich wrote:

> You mean SIP doesn't have some kind of caller ID header? When these 
> phones are registered directly with Asterisk, caller ID works exactly 
> like a legacy non-SIP phone: Only a name and a number (or extension) 
> appear on the display on an incoming call. Using SER as a proxy, we get 
> the SIP URI instead of simply the telephone number.


The display name part of the From header has been designed to serve
this purpose. You should have a close look at the messages generated
by your Asterisk server to determine the differences between these
and those generated by SER.

Regards,
Olaf