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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

4 (1)
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

FreeTDM installation


FreeTDM and its integration FreeSWITCH module, mod_freetdm, can be installed from several sources. The recommendation is to install it along with FreeSWITCH using the Linux distribution package installers.

Having said that, some FreeTDM modules may not be included in the packaged versions (for example, ftmod_r2) or you may be using an OS for which FreeSWITCH does not distribute binaries (for example, Arch Linux). In order to compile from sources you need to have previously installed the required dependencies. During build time the FreeTDM "configure" script will detect which libraries are available in your system and build only the modules that have their dependencies satisfied. The following is a list of dependencies you need to have installed on any of the listed modules. The FreeTDM core does not really depend on any libraries (any that are not shipped and built-in with it); it's only some of the signaling and IO modules that have dependencies on a number of libraries...