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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide
Revised for the upcoming 1.8 release of the Asterisk open source PBX, this bestselling guide provides a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating this powerful software with existing phone systems. Asterisk: The Definitive Guide has everything you need to know to design a complete VoIP or analog system with little or no Asterisk experience, and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge.
Written for experienced Linux power users and administrators, this book shows you how to write a basic dialplan step-by-step, and quickly gets you up to speed on several features new to Asterisk, including:
Skype for Asterisk Fax capabilities (T.38) Clustering with Open AIS Jabber integration and XMPP Heartbeat cluster infrastructure (LinuxHA, failover) ISN and ENUM — methods of circumventing the PSTN by dialing SIP URIs with numbers Security profile for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over fifteen years of enterprise telecom experience for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment from manufacturers such as Nortel, Cisco, and Avaya. Jim is one of the principal contributors to the Asterisk Documentation Project, and is co-author of the bestselling O'Reilly book, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony.
Leif Madsen first got involved with the Asterisk community when he was looking for a voice conferencing solution. Once he learned that there was no official Asterisk documentation, he co-founded the Asterisk Documentation Project. Leif is currently working as a consultant, specializing in Asterisk clustering and call-center integration. You can get more information at http://www.leifmadsen.com.
Russell Bryant is the Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team at Digium, Inc. He has been a core member of the Asterisk development team since the Fall of 2004. At the first AstriCon in 2004, he was named the release maintainer for Asterisk's first major release series, Asterisk 1.0. He has since contributed to almost all areas of Asterisk development, from project management to core architectural design and development.
Written for experienced Linux power users and administrators, this book shows you how to write a basic dialplan step-by-step, and quickly gets you up to speed on several features new to Asterisk, including:
Skype for Asterisk Fax capabilities (T.38) Clustering with Open AIS Jabber integration and XMPP Heartbeat cluster infrastructure (LinuxHA, failover) ISN and ENUM — methods of circumventing the PSTN by dialing SIP URIs with numbers Security profile for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over fifteen years of enterprise telecom experience for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment from manufacturers such as Nortel, Cisco, and Avaya. Jim is one of the principal contributors to the Asterisk Documentation Project, and is co-author of the bestselling O'Reilly book, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony.
Leif Madsen first got involved with the Asterisk community when he was looking for a voice conferencing solution. Once he learned that there was no official Asterisk documentation, he co-founded the Asterisk Documentation Project. Leif is currently working as a consultant, specializing in Asterisk clustering and call-center integration. You can get more information at http://www.leifmadsen.com.
Russell Bryant is the Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team at Digium, Inc. He has been a core member of the Asterisk development team since the Fall of 2004. At the first AstriCon in 2004, he was named the release maintainer for Asterisk's first major release series, Asterisk 1.0. He has since contributed to almost all areas of Asterisk development, from project management to core architectural design and development.
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734 pages, ebook
First published April 15, 2011
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November 10, 2020Only book on the topic but out of date. Useful as an overview.
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