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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

XML Dialplan commands


While we would love to go through all the available Dialplan commands, the list far exceeds the space we have for this chapter. Therefore, we will limit our discussion of available Dialplan commands to three areas—Dialplan tools, Sofia connectivity, and general API commands. These Dialplan commands are provided by mod_dptools, mod_sofia, and mod_commands respectively.

  • mod_dptools: mod_dptools is a collection of Dialplan management tools. There are many, many commands available from within the Dialplan. You have already learned how basic commands like answer, hangup, bridge, and set work. Let us go over a few of the more advanced commands.

  • bind_meta_app: bind_meta_app binds an application to the specified call leg(s). During a bridged call, the DTMF sequence on the bound call leg will trigger the execution of the application. The call leg that is not bound will not hear the DTMF sequence being dialed. You can only bind a single digit, and the binding is always proceeded...