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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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 skill."FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves 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."FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making media flow


Now that the SIP messages are flowing properly from FreeSWITCH to the phone, what about the media? A phone call is not very eventful if you can't even hear each other, right? We had many problems where the calls would set up properly until the point where NAT would strike the RTP packets that provide the actual audio of the call, rendering the call with one-way-audio or even no-way-audio in some cases. In light of this injustice, we created a separate feature that is always enabled and only needs to be manually disabled in a very few set of cases inspired by the fourth pitfall. This feature is called RTP auto-adjust. The reason we need it is because when the phone tries to call us from behind NAT, it will naively advertise its unreachable LAN address to FreeSWITCH as the intended destination for the audio.

We could guess that since the device is behind NAT, we should really send the audio to the same address that we saved from the SIP message. But that is not always the...