FreeSwitch 1.0.6 : Build Robust Telephony Systems Using Freeswitch

Follow this course and you'll be amazed at how feasible it is to get a sophisticated telephony system up and running by yourself. From basics to advanced features, it takes you step-by-step through the powerful capabilities of FreeSWITCH. Overview Install and configure a complete telephony system of your own even if you are using FreeSWITCH for the first time In-depth discussions of important concepts like the dialplan, user directory, and the powerful FreeSWITCH Event Socket The first ever book on FreeSWITCH, packed with real-world examples for Linux/Unix systems, Mac OSX, and Windows, along with useful screenshots and diagrams Best practices and expert tips from the FreeSWITCH experts, including the creator of FreeSWITCH, Anthony Minessale 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 Avoid common implementation mistakes and deploy various features of this telephony system with best practices and expert tips Perform routine maintenance for smooth running and troubleshoot the system when things are not going right Apply regular expressions to unlock unique and powerful call routing scenarios Call your own application(s) when particular events occur and control FreeSWITCH using the powerful Event Socket Set up multi-party conferencing facilities for your system Interact with callers, gather information, and route calls to the appropriate recipient using the automated, built-in XML IVR (Interactive Voice Response) engine Create a flexible dialplan, and allow third-party tools to be quickly and easily created using dialplan parsers other than the default XML Dialplan Park multiple calls in a FIFO queue and unpark them in the order in which they were received, using the mod_fifo module Record an entire phone call or session using the call recording feature Create advanced call control applic

Anthony Minessale

Anthony Minessale has been involved in telephony since 2003. Prior to that, he had spent over ten years as a CTO and platform designer for various companies during the height of the Internet revolution. He has spent over half a decade working as the creator and lead developer of the FreeSWITCH open source project and several years before that as a volunteer developer for the Asterisk open source PBX, and is a noted contributor of several features on that project as well.

Anthony is the creator and owner of FreeSWITCH Solutions LLC, responsible for the popular annual VoIP conference, ClueCon, held every summer in Chicago. Anthony also works for Barracuda Networks as the director of Engineering for the CudaTEL PBX appliance, a product he and his team handcrafted to work with FreeSWITCH as the telephony engine.

Darren A. Schreiber

Darren A. Schreiber is helping pioneer the way to distributed cloud telephony solutions. He is the founder of the 2600hz Project, the TCAI project, and is the author of the latest version of FreePBX, a popular open source telephony management system. He has worked in Enterprise IT for over 15 years and has lead teams in successful projects in telecom, marketing, and web-based SaaS spaces. He has been a serious telephony enthusiast from a young age and has been working extensively with VoIP technologies for the past seven years. Darren graduated from Rensselaer with a degree in Computer Science and Business Entrepreneurship.

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. Michael is an active member of the FreeSWITCH community. He currently works for Barracuda Networks, Inc.