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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

Compiling FreeSWITCH for Windows


As mentioned in the Operating system prerequisites section, FreeSWITCH is built with MSVC or MSVCEE. The steps presented here are specifically for MSVCEE 2010; however, the steps for the various editions of MSVC are essentially the same.

Important considerations for Windows users

Unless you are a developer, you may find that using the FreeSWITCH binary installer is more than adequate for your needs. Simply download the x86 or x64 freeswitch.msi from http://files.freeswitch.org/windows/installer/ and run the installer. It is extremely simple to do. More information about the binaries can be found online at http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_for_Windows#Precompiled_Binaries.

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