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Mastering FreeSWITCH

By : Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold
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Book Image

Mastering FreeSWITCH

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By: Russell Treleaven, Seven Du, Darren Schreiber, Ken Rice, Mike Jerris, Kalyani Kulkarni, Florent Krieg, Charles Bujold

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is one of the best tools around if you’re looking for a modern method of managing communication protocols through a range of different media. From real-time browser communication with the WebRTC API to implementing VoIP (voice over internet protocol), with FreeSWITCH you’re in full control of your projects. This book shows you how to unlock its full potential – more than just a tutorial, it’s packed with plenty of tips and tricks to make it work for you. Written by members of the team who actually helped build FreeSWITCH, it will guide you through some of the newest features of version 1.6 including video transcoding and conferencing. Find out how FreeSWITCH interacts with other tools and APIs, learn how to tackle common (and not so common) challenges ranging from high availability to IVR development and programming advanced PBXs. Great communication functionality begins with FreeSWITCH – find out how and get your project up and running today.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering FreeSWITCH
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Contributors
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
WebRTC and Mod_Verto
Index

Installing Homer and the Capture Server


Each SIPCAPTURE stack element is open source and available from GitHub, accompanied by full installation instructions and an active Wiki containing several useful examples.

Because there are a lot of different moving parts that need to fit together, to get acquainted with the stack, it is much easier to help yourself with one of the different ready-made offerings from SIPCAPTURE.

In a basic or testing installation, all elements can co-exist on the same host or system: Capture Server, database, web server, user interface. For large setups, each component can be installed (and scaled) separately.

At the moment of writing, SIPCAPTURE project provides Docker images (one single container, and one multi-container) and a Puppet recipe producing a complete system with all core elements preconfigured.

For those (like this humble writer) who are a little bit more traditionalist, there is an automated shell script that installs it all from pre-built packages on both...