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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By : Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
Book Image

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

Chapter 13. Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing

Conferencing is one of the premium services you want to offer to your users and your customers. In these times where we're between cost cuts and time constraints, the ability to have a virtual meeting is a real bonus.

So more so if you can manage the meeting, give the "talk" floor in an ordered manner to each presenter, mute and unmute each and every of the participants, etc.

And when you add to the mix the video stream from each participant webcam, the possibility to share a presentation screen, to play videos, to record the session, and to have different persons "on stage" at the same time... That's not only cheaper and faster than walking in a physical room to join a meeting, is also more productive!

We have also developed a WebRTC client that fully leverage our contemporary VERTO protocol to offer a beautiful, productive, immersive and engaging conference experience to participants and moderators!

FreeSWITCH gives you all the building...