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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Terminate Call


FreePBX provides several clever ways to terminate calls. We may wish to terminate a call because the calling number is a known telemarketer, or perhaps the caller has attempted to reach an invalid extension too many times. Whichever the case, the following options are available for the Terminate Call target:

  • Hangup: Terminates the call immediately without any further call processing or signaling.

  • Congestion: Sends a signal indicating that there are no channels available to complete the call before terminating it. This is used only for digital channels (such as SIP, IAX, or PRI). Some providers will use this signal to locate an alternate route or process the call in another way.

  • Busy: Relays a busy tone to the caller. The call terminates when the calling party hangs up (FreePBX will play a busy tone indefinitely).

  • Play SIT Tone (Zapateller): Plays a SIT known as an operator intercept to the calling party. An operator intercept tone consists of two short tones and one...