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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the following:

  • How AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) concepts are implemented in FreeSWITCH
  • How FreeSWITCH collects users into a directory
  • How FreeSWITCH uses information fro User Directory and Dialplan to route calls from users to each other, and to the world
  • Employing various user features such as voicemail
  • Adding a new user and modifying the Dialplan accordingly
  • Connecting to the outside world with gateways
  • SIP and Verto profiles

In this chapter, we made modifications to the default XML Dialplan, and we learned how to set up users and domains within the XML user directory. Also, we saw how to setup SIP gateways and DID numbers to interconnect with the external world. In the next chapter we'll have a first look at WebRTC and Verto, powerful technologies that promise to seamlessly integrate browsers, mobile apps and the Internet of Things (IoT) into our FreeSWITCH communication platform.