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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

Chapter 2. Building and Installation

FreeSWITCH is open-source software. So, you will always be able to obtain its source code for free. Also, it is a special kind of open source: you can modify it (or ask some hired consultant to modify it on your specs), build your product on top of it, and sell it, with no need to distribute your modifications or to pay any royalties (it is covered by the BSD like license). In fact, with or without your modifications, building and installing FreeSWITCH from source code is simple. We'll look into it in this chapter.

FreeSWITCH can be compiled and installed on Linux, Windows, *BSD, and OSX, on a range of hardware that spans 96 cores big datacenter servers to Raspberry Pi, from VMWare to KVM virtual machines, and from LXC containers to AWS instances.

For each and every platform, FreeSWITCH depends on a lot of pre-requisites, many libraries, tools, and programs, both for being compiled and for running. Obviously, for your comfort, we have automated those pre...