Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

by Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen

Provides information on Asterisk, an open source telephony application.

Genres: Technology, Reference, Computers, Technical

380 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2005

Reviews

[Lauskin · Rating 5 out of 5]

El libro que marcó mi carrera, lo leí en 2010 y me enseñó las posibilidades del mundo VoIP. Ahora, a 17 años vista de la publicación de su segunda edición el mundo es completamente diferente. En su contexto una muy buena guía y manual de referencia sobre el proyecto VoIP que para mí, lo cambió todo.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent reference into establishing your own PBX system. It accurately and comprehensively explains the options and tradeoffs for internal and external communications.

As a side note, the extreme effort required to offer phone termination (bridge between voip and PSTN) as well as SMS means that for most non-PBX purposes, one would be better served by telecom as a service (e.g. Voxeo or Twilio).

[Al · Rating 4 out of 5]

For those of us who find a book more comfortable than a wiki.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

This gives great detail on how to install a VoIP system.

[Michael Babcock · Rating 4 out of 5]

helped me learn quite a bit about asterisk, and was the only book i really was able to find to learn asterisk. Good read if your looking to learn about asterisk.

[Aleksey Abramov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for beginners.