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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

Routing calls to your IVR


Routing calls to your IVR is simple and can be done from within the Dialplan. Simply add the following XML application to your Dialplan extension where you want to invoke an IVR:

<action application="ivr" data="demo_ivr"/>

This will cause FreeSWITCH to look for the IVR named demo_ivr and invoke it. Note that it is not possible to return from an IVR and continue processing Dialplan entries; the IVR must ultimately transfer, bridge, or hangup the caller.

The XML Dialplan entry for invoking the demo_ivr, which is included with the sample FreeSWITCH configuration files, is as follows:

<!-- a sample IVR  -->
<extension name="ivr_demo">
  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^5000$">
    <action application="answer"/>
    <action application="sleep" data="2000"/>
    <action application="ivr" data="demo_ivr"/>
  </condition>
</extension>

Note that in the preceding example, a sleep application appears before...