## Introduction

In Asterisk, Local channels are a method used to treat an extension in the dialplan as if it were an external device. In essense, Asterisk will send the call back into the dialplan as the destination of the call, versus sending the call to a device.

Two of the most common areas where Local channels are used include members configured for queues, and in use with callfiles. There are also other uses where you want to ring two destinations, but with different information, such as different callerID for each outgoing request.