FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

by Anthony Minessale, Darren Schreiber, Michael S. Collins

Overview

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 skills.This book comes to your rescue, helping you to set up a telephony system fast and easily using FreeSWITCH. It will take you from being a novice to creating a fully-functional telephony system of your own. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.The book begins by introducing the architecture and working of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847199973
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/26/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anthony Minessale is an industry veteran with many years of experience working in software development, telecommunications, and networking. After working for several years as an Asterisk developer he set out to create a new VoIP telecommunications platform. Under his leadership the FreeSWITCH project was born and has grown into a world-class soft-switch. Anthony actively develops and offers professional support services for FreeSWITCH.

Darren Schreiber is the creator of a popular open-source GUI for FreeSWITCH. After working with phone systems since the age of 13, Darren has gone on to develop and manage multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for IT, voice, and e-commerce systems. He is currently working on development and support services for turn-key solutions that enable VoIP and hosted PBX carrier services.

Michael Collins is a 15-year veteran of telecommunications and PBX systems. A relative newcomer to VoIP, he discovered FreeSWITCH in its very early stages and has been an enthusiastic community member ever since. He works with the core FreeSWITCH development team, assisting with documentation and community development. Michael currently works for a technology company that makes extensive use of FreeSWITCH.