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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

The FreeSWITCH main website and wiki


There are two primary websites for the FreeSWITCH project:

The main FreeSWITCH page—www.freeswitch.org

The FreeSWITCH main web page is the starting point for all things related to the project. From the main page you can do many things as follows:

  • Read up on FreeSWITCH and VoIP news

  • Download or browse the source code

  • Report bugs or feature requests

  • View documentation

  • Join the #freeswitch IRC channel with the Freenode Java applet

New content is added to the main page every few days, so check back frequently.

The FreeSWITCH Wiki page—wiki.freeswitch.org

The FreeSWITCH wiki is the primary source for FreeSWITCH documentation. A wiki is a website that allows users to add, edit, or delete content and link to other content. A classic example of a wiki page is Wikipedia. The FreeSWITCH wiki page uses MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org), the same wiki engine used by Wikipedia.

The FreeSWITCH wiki is a community resource. While Michael S. Collins is the primary wiki administrator, all FreeSWITCH users are welcome to add or update content on the site. Like most wiki sites there is a lot of content. Sometimes searching for information can be challenging. We recommend that you use Google site search (site:wiki.freeswitch.org <search topic>) if you are having trouble locating a particular subject. After using the wiki for a while you will begin to get a feel for where certain pieces of information are located.

Prospective wiki contributors should keep a few things in mind, they are as follows:

  • Do a search before adding content—it may be that the information you want to add is already on the wiki and simply needs to be updated or better indexed.

  • Make sure that any content you add is properly linked to.

  • Make sure that any content you add is part of a site category.

  • Feel free to make mistakes! Others will be happy to help you make corrections.

Documentation of open source software is almost always a challenge, so if you are in a position to assist please contact Michael at [email protected]. There is always a need for skills such as proofreading, verifying facts, testing configurations and examples, and translating text into other languages.