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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

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are an IT professional or enthusiast who is interested in quickly getting a powerful telephony system up and running using the free and open source application FreeSWITCH, this book is for you. Telephony experience will be helpful, but is not required.

What you will learn

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 applications with the Lua scripting language
Take a peek into the vibrant online community and history of FreeSWITCH

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Ali R. Aug 12, 2010

This book provides the detailed information you need to start using this powerful open source platform. It is written in an enjoyable style, read it and you will be armed with relevant information on how to deploy rich and SMART VoIP applications.

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Michael F. Gende Aug 31, 2010

Chapter one starts out boldly stating, "A revolution has begun and secrets have been revealed." Indeed. As someone that came upon FreeSWITCH after some discouraging issues with another well known VoIP engine, I found this project to be well engineered, useful, and getting more so all the time. And while there is a great deal of detailed information on FS available via the Internet, one longed for a more "start to finish" treatment, details in that context, a good reference, and perhaps even some historical perspective that one could carry around. I have found this book to be all of those things and then some. I personally like the conversational writing style despite the technical information contained herein. So, if you are seeking information on FreeSWITCH, how to get it up and running, and things one can do with it, well, there is a lot to like about this book. For the FS administrator, this comes highly recommended, as it should be to anyone with some computer science background interested in the subject. And, don't overlook Appendix B for some enjoyable information on how the whole project came to exist. Well done, gentlemen.

FPYM Mar 30, 2012

I've been working with FreeSWITCH for a while now-- on both small and (very) large scale deployments. Even with my experience, I made the decision to purchase the book (of many reasons supporting the authors of open source software you use seems like the right thing to do). The bottom line? I don't care how experienced you are-- this book will provide you at least one AWESOME tip. It's something I would consider an essential purchase.

pjintheusa Jul 28, 2010

I have been using FreeSWITCH for little under a year and enjoy it greatly. If there is one weak spot then it is with the documentation - especially for the beginner. This book plugs this gap very nicely by giving a gentle but thorough introduction, followed by advanced topics including IVR, Lua scripting and even the event socket layer (ESL). There is a good emphasis on explaining architecture - is teaches the why as well as how. Although I am familiar (but by no means an expert) with FreeSWITCH, I still found myself learning a great deal in the very early pages. If you have an interest in VoIP and open source telephony - this is a must have.

lfean32 Sep 08, 2010

You can count on this book being different from any other technical voip book available today. It is a must have publication for the voip novice or an advanced engineer wishing to use Freeswitch. After reading the first chapter it is easy to see there is a large amount of information in the book and reading it more than once is recommended to help with absorbing the material.Upon completing the first half of the book readers will find their understanding of not only Freeswitch but of the voice over internet protocol will be greatly enhanced. The book tells readers the beginnings of phone systems and the future of them with the use of Freeswitch. The authors suggest reading the first chapter multiple times at different intervals within the book, I would also endorse this as it helps the reader gain some extra insight into the Freeswitch architecture.Novice users will find chapter 2 very useful as it goes though the installation process step by step for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also discusses the different prerequisites for compiling and installing on these different operating systems. I was impressed with the instructions to compile and install on Windows operating systems as they are very in depth making it easy to follow. Not that I would recommend using Freeswitch on top of Windows but if you needed to do so I wouldn't try it without this book.More advanced topics are introduced in chapter 7 by programing IVR menu's with the built-in Lua language. The subjects and examples covered here are extremely useful to any Freeswitch programer showing basic and advanced menus with database integration. The examples used in the chapter will help readers develop their own sophisticated IVR menus for use within phone systems or enterprise level switches. Whichever way you are headed there is an example to help you design the perfect IVR.Engineers looking for enterprise level systems would find chapter 9 of interest since it covers the ability of external control for Freeswitch. This gives designers different methods to interact and work with the Freeswitch application using an api. This is especially helpful in enterprise systems to provide monitoring and administration to basic users using a webpage or other form of simple navigation. Through the api a webpage can give a user the ability to complete most tasks within Freeswitch easily using a GUI.After reading the whole book, and maybe reading a couple of chapters over a few times, readers will have a complete knowledge of what Freeswitch is and how it can improve their voip implementation. Whether using it on Windows or Linux, for a small office or a internet telephone service provider this book will have something useful for all readers. It is not overly basic for advanced users or too technical for beginners, the context is introduced in a format not to overwhelm first time users. I found all the information very helpful and useful to expand my Freeswitch knowledge allowing me to add new features to phone systems and enterprise systems. FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

FreeSWITCH 1.0.6: Follow this course and you‚Äôll 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. CH

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