Hi all. I'm dealing with an office with a sort of old fashioned workflow, incoming calls are answered by a receptionist, who then places the call on park and announces the call to the recipient. The SIP phones are set to auto answer internal calls, so the recipient cam either say "OK" and pick up the call from park, or can tell the receptionist "Take a message", "Tell them I'll call back later", etc.
The business would like to outsource this service for call overflow, receptionist off days, etc. Is anyone aware of an answering service that offers direct SIP connection so that the offsite virtual receptionist appears as an extension is Asterisk, and can pick up ringing calls, park them and announce with auto answer?
Thanks.