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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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 skill."FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves 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."FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Events from the Dialplan


mod_event_socket provides a Dialplan application named socket that allows for outbound TCP connections to be made to an IP and port, where the other end can stream commands for execution back to FreeSWITCH. This is similar to the network-based fast-AGI (FAGI) of Asterisk, but it can operate in full asynchronous mode, allowing commands to be issued and control to be returned immediately in anticipation of additional events or responses.

When you call outbound socket, FreeSWITCH automatically puts the call in park. You can watch calls go into the parked state by watching the event stack for the CHANNEL_PARK event.

The syntax for calling socket from the Dialplan is:

<ip>:<port> [<keywords>] 

The following are examples of how to use it in the Dialplan:

<action application="socket" data="127.0.0.1:8084"/>
<action application="socket" data="127.0.0.1:8084 async"/> 
<action application="socket" data="127.0.0.1:8084 full"/>
<action application...