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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By : Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By: Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli

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. This book introduces FreeSWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system. This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of FreeSWITCH. We then move on to the fundamentals and the new features added in version 1.6, showing you how to set up a basic system so you can make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality. Once you have a basic system in place, we’ll show you how to add more and more functionalities to it. You’ll learn to deploy the features on the system using unique techniques and tips to make it work better. Also, there are changes in the security-related components, which will affect the content in the book, so we will make that intact with the latest version. There are new support libraries introduced, such as SQLite, OpenSS, and more, which will make FreeSWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Where to Install FreeSWITCH


FreeSWITCH can be installed on almost anything, which is good for testing, developing, and opens up a wealth of different use cases (think embedded systems and Internet of Things).

For production systems and, particularly for mission-critical systems (think the PBX of your company, or a taxi dispatching service, or your hot startup WebRTC-enabled commercial videoconferencing-cum-translation service), you have three choices: use the platforms we counsel (the most tried and true), or know exactly what you're doing (hint: it is impossible you know so much about FreeSWITCH internals), or ask for a qualified consultancy. That's important not only to save on time, money, efforts, and frustrations, but so much more for the ongoing support, bug fixing, features upgrade, and platform evolution.

Choice of Operating System

Which operating system is best for running FreeSWITCH in production? Choose the one that is the most used in your company, the one in which you have most...