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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

Configure SIP and make the first calls in demo dialplan


We're almost ready for the real emotions, when something rings and blinks. Right after installation FreeSWITCH gets a demo example configuration complete with a lot of features. A very complex dialplan has been laid out for you to play with, and feel the power of FreeSWITCH.

NB:That dialplan is just a demo, don't use it in production. Is overcomplex and has too much features, you do not know it, and so is outside your control.

Demo example dialplan and configuration are just that: demo examples. When you finish play with them, delete them and build something that's right for your use case. If you are not able, ask someone else, a friend or a consultant, to do it for you. Any other behavior would be stupid and dangerous from a legal and financial standpoint. You have been warned! :)

Change demo example password

First thing to do with a new installation is to change the default password for the demo users (users, passwords, and all other...