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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

Summary


This chapter is only a brief guide to the most common VoIP security technologies prevalent today. There are a plethora of additional resources including sites such as www.hackingvoip.com, books on Hacking VoIP, and on Computer Security.

Taking the basic steps outlined in this chapter will provide you sufficient amount of security against today's most common hacks, DoS attacks, and abuses. This should allow most small to medium sized PBXes or hosted VoIP systems to operate securely and reliably.

We now move on to the last chapter in this book where we see how to react when things go wrong, we're not able to implement something, or we hit a bug in FreeSWITCH. We'll learn the basics about troubleshooting, asking for help, and reporting problems.