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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Maintaining Asterisk versions


Just as the underlying system packages are updated, Digium releases updates to Asterisk whenever necessary in order to fix bugs or patch security concerns. If Asterisk was installed from source, it will not be updated when the system packages are updated. Updating Asterisk versions is very similar to the process of installing Asterisk.

Note that "updating" Asterisk in this context means to update Asterisk to a new release of the same major version that is currently running (for example, updating from 1.4.22 to 1.4.24). It does not mean updating between major release versions (for example, 1.4 to 1.6). Major version upgrades may be required during the life of a PBX, but these types of upgrades require special planning due to new features or features that may be deprecated or non-existent in the upgraded version (causing Asterisk to stop routing calls properly).

In order to make upgrades simple, Digium uses files that have the major version number suffixed with...