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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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 skills.This book comes to your rescue, helping you to set up a telephony system fast and easily using FreeSWITCH. It will take you from being a novice to creating a fully-functional telephony system of your own. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.The book begins by introducing the architecture and working of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving 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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

XML Dialplan cookbook


We present here a few common scenarios that you may need to refer to from time-to-time because they are relatively common. The examples presented in this section are in the mold of the tradition "cookbook" full of "recipes" for the reader to try. Feel free to use and modify these recipes in your custom Dialplans.

Match by IP address and call a number

In the example as follows, the particular extension will be selected only if the IP address of the calling endpoint is 192.168.1.1. In the second condition, the dialed number is extracted in variable $1 and put in the data of the bridge application, in order to dial out to IP address 192.168.2.2

<extension name="Test1">
  <condition field="network_addr" expression="^192\.168\.1\.1$"/>
  <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(\d+)$">
    <action application="bridge" data="sofia/profilename/[email protected]"/>
  </condition>
</extension>

The first condition field is terminated by...