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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

Making calls from the command line interface


You can make calls with no users on a system. For this example, we're going to assume that you have an endpoint to which you can make unauthenticated calls. This endpoint could be an IP phone, a soft phone, or even another FreeSWITCH server with a registered user or two. The only requirement is that the URI you call should ring a phone that you can answer. In our examples, we'll use my.open.endpoint.example.com as the target domain. Be sure to use the appropriate user and domain or IP address for your configuration.

Open fs_cli and execute this command:

originate sofia/internal/[email protected] &echo()

Obviously, this isn't going to be very useful in the real world. Hearing yourself say, "Hello, testing one, two, three…" can prove to be a good test of bi-directional audio and such, but to make this a productive example we should probably do something bit more interesting with our call.

In the following example, we'll originate...