Whether you're an IT pro or an enthusiast, setting up your own fully-featured telephony system is an exciting challenge, made all the more realistic for beginners by this brilliant book on FreeSWITCH. A 100% practical tutorial.
Overview
- Learn how to install and configure a complete telephony system of your own, even if this is your first time using FreeSWITCH.
- In-depth discussions of important concepts like the dialplan, user directory, NAT handling, and the powerful FreeSWITCH event socket.
- Best practices and expert tips from the FreeSWITCH experts, including the creator of FreeSWITCH, Anthony Minessale.
In Detail
FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. It is always exciting to design and build your own telephony system to suit your needs, but the task is time-consuming and involves a lot of technical skill.
"FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.
You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.
The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature-packed PBX. You will learn about maintaining a user directory, XML dial plan, and advanced dial plan concepts, call routing, and the extremely powerful Event Socket. You will finally learn about the online community and history of FreeSWITCH.
"FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
What you will learn from this book
- Set up a basic system to make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality.
- Deploy different features of this telephony system with best practices and expert tips.
- Understand the inner workings and architecture of FreeSWITCH.
- Use advanced features to create powerful dialplans.
- Overcome frustrating NAT issues.
- Control FreeSWITCH remotely with the powerful event socket.
- Create web-controlled telephony apps with the new HTTAPI system.
- Secure your VoIP communications.
Approach
This book is full of practical code examples aimed at a beginner to ease his or her learning curve.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for IT professionals and enthusiasts who are interested in quickly getting a powerful telephony system up and running using the free and open source application, FreeSWITCH.
Telephony experience will be helpful, but not required.
Anthony Minessale
Anthony Minessale has been working with computers for nearly 30 years. He is the primary author of FreeSWITCH and Director of Engineering for CudaTEL at Barracuda Networks.
He created and continues to run the ClueCon Telephony Developers Conference, held every August in Chicago.
He has extensive experience in the Internet industry and VoIP. Before creating FreeSWITCH, he contributed heavily to the Asterisk open source project, producing many features that are still in use today. At Barracuda Networks, Anthony oversees the production and development of the CudaTEL PBX appliance that uses FreeSWITCH as its core telephony engine.
Michael S Collins
Michael S Collins is a telephony and open source software enthusiast. He is a PBX veteran, having worked as a PBX technician for five years and as the head of IT for a call center for more than nine years. He is an active member of the FreeSWITCH community and has co-authored FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He resides in Central California with his wife and two children and currently works for Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Darren Schreiber
Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.
He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.
He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler(@intralanman) has been working with, and contributing to, open source projects for over a decade. Raymond's VoIP experience started with a small CLEC/ITSP using SER for call routing, and Asterisk for voicemail and advanced services. After encountering limits in Asterisk and looking for features not easily found in SER, he moved to using OpenSER and CallWeaver (then known as OpenPBX.org). While that combination was better, he still had not found his perfect solution.
In 2006, he was introduced to FreeSWITCH. Since then, he's been using FreeSWITCH and regularly contributing to the community. He is the author of mod_lcr and several utility PHP/Perl scripts. He now works with Anthony Minessale as a CudaTel Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks (@CudaTel and @Barracuda). In the spring of 2011, he was among the founding members of the Open Source Telephony Advancement Group (@OSTAG), whose mission is to advance open source telephony to new heights by funding open source projects through funds received by generous contributions and grants from those who share the OSTAG vision.
