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Mastering FreeSWITCH

By : Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

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By: Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is one of the best tools around if you’re looking for a modern method of managing communication protocols through a range of different media. From real-time browser communication with the WebRTC API to implementing VoIP (voice over internet protocol), with FreeSWITCH you’re in full control of your projects. This book shows you how to unlock its full potential – more than just a tutorial, it’s packed with plenty of tips and tricks to make it work for you. Written by members of the team who actually helped build FreeSWITCH, it will guide you through some of the newest features of version 1.6 including video transcoding and conferencing. Find out how FreeSWITCH interacts with other tools and APIs, learn how to tackle common (and not so common) challenges ranging from high availability to IVR development and programming advanced PBXs. Great communication functionality begins with FreeSWITCH – find out how and get your project up and running today.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering FreeSWITCH
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Contributors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
WebRTC and Mod_Verto
Index

Summary


In this chapter we delved into WebRTC design, what infrastructure it requires, and what is similar and what is different from known VoIP.

We understood that WebRTC is only about media, and leave the signaling to the implementor.

Also, we get the specifics of WebRTC, its way of traversing NAT, its omnipresent encryption, and its peer to peer nature.

We witnessed going beyond peer to peer, connecting with the telecommunication world of services that need gateways for transport, protocol, and media translations.

FreeSWITCH is the perfect fit, as a WebRTC server, WebRTC gateway, and also as an application server.

And then we saw how to implement Verto, a signaling born on WebRTC, a JSON web protocol designed to exploit the additional features of WebRTC and of FreeSWITCH, like real time data structure synchronization, session rehydration, event systems, and so on.