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Mastering FreeSWITCH

By : Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

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By: Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is one of the best tools around if you’re looking for a modern method of managing communication protocols through a range of different media. From real-time browser communication with the WebRTC API to implementing VoIP (voice over internet protocol), with FreeSWITCH you’re in full control of your projects. This book shows you how to unlock its full potential – more than just a tutorial, it’s packed with plenty of tips and tricks to make it work for you. Written by members of the team who actually helped build FreeSWITCH, it will guide you through some of the newest features of version 1.6 including video transcoding and conferencing. Find out how FreeSWITCH interacts with other tools and APIs, learn how to tackle common (and not so common) challenges ranging from high availability to IVR development and programming advanced PBXs. Great communication functionality begins with FreeSWITCH – find out how and get your project up and running today.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering FreeSWITCH
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Contributors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
WebRTC and Mod_Verto
Index

Feeding SIP signaling, QoS, MOS and RTP/RTCP stats from CaptAgent to Homer


At the moment of writing, all media-related reports (RTP, RTCP, Quality of Service, Medium Opinion Score, and so on) have not yet been added to the Capture Agent integrated as features in FreeSWITCH.

We'll take the opportunity to see the usage of CaptAgent, the universal stand-alone Agent for the SIPCAPTURE stack.

Let's start building the latest version:

#  cd /usr/src
#  git clone https://github.com/sipcapture/captagent.git captagent
#  cd captagent
#  ./build.sh
#  ./configure
#  make && make install

Now head to /usr/local/captagent/etc/captagent/ and feel the pain! Configuration is complex, and distributed in many files. Be tenacious; you'll be rewarded. Start by checking all paths in captagent.xml. Then, edit captureplans/sip_capture_plan.cfg and uncomment the entire if(sip_has_sdp()) block.

Enable true RTCP in socket_pcap.xml. Then edit transport_hep.xml and insert the IP address and port of Capture Server...