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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

Web GUIs


There are a number of Web Graphical User Interfaces (Web GUIs) available for FreeSWITCH today. Some are graphical tools that generate XML configuration files while others take the approach of abstracting the switch configuration completely and providing simplified but flexible user interfaces to end-users. We cover some of the more popular ones below.

Note that choosing the right GUI is really a personal decision based on your preferences. Some people prefer one language over another. Some people are concerned strictly about features. Some people focus on scalability. Since most distributions come with easy to install ISOs, you should try out all the interfaces you can find before making a decision on which one you like the most.

FusionPBX

FusionPBX is an open source graphical interface written in PHP. The project started as the FreeSWITCH package on the pfSense firewall. Later it was renamed to FusionPBX and released with multi-platform support including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS...