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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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. It is always exciting to design and build your own telephony system to suit your needs, but the task is time consuming and involves a lot of technical skills.This book comes to your rescue, helping you to set up a telephony system fast and easily using FreeSWITCH. It will take you from being a novice to creating a fully-functional telephony system of your own. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.The book begins by introducing the architecture and working of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature-packed PBX. You will learn about maintaining a user directory, XML dial plan and advanced dial plan concepts, call routing, and the extremely powerful Event Socket. You will finally learn about the online community and history of FreeSWITCH.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

FreeSWITCH XML Dialplan elements


The default FreeSWITCH XML Dialplan is contained in three main files and two directories, located in conf/dialplan/:

  • default.xml—The primary FreeSWITCH Dialplan configuration

  • public.xmlHandles calls coming in to FreeSWITCH from another location

  • features.xml—A special context for handling specific dialing features

  • default/Files in this directory get included in the default context

  • public/—Files in this directory get included in the public context

The default XML configuration has many instructions for routing calls, all of which make use of the basic building blocks of a Dialplan: contexts, extensions, conditions, and actions. A context is a logical grouping of one or more extensions. An extension contains one or more conditions that must be met. Conditions contain actions that will be performed on the call, depending on the whether the condition is met or not. Before discussing these building blocks further, though, let's revisit some of the concepts we...