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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

Supporting libraries


In addition to the Event Socket Library (ESL) abstraction library supplied with FreeSWITCH, there are third-party libraries that expand upon (or eschew entirely) ESL while adding specific functionality to certain programming languages.

Liverpie (Ruby)

Liverpie (language independent IVR proxy) is a free piece of software, written in Ruby, that talks to FreeSWITCH on one side, and to any web application on the other, regardless of language, platform, and so on. It translates FreeSWITCH mod_event_socket dialogue into HTTP markup (embedding various parameters in HTTP headers), so you can write your own HTTP-speaking finite state machine and hook it to FreeSWITCH via Liverpie. Note also that Liverpie expects the response in YAML so you can save yourself the pain of providing XML if you are comfortable with Liverpie doing the translation.

You can learn more about Liverpie at http://www.liverpie.com.

FreeSWITCHeR (Ruby)

FreeSWITCHeR is an EventMachine-based Ruby library for interacting...