Skip to Main Content
Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
book

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition

by Russell Bryant, Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
843 pages
23h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition

Chapter 9. Internationalization

David Duffett

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it’s their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Will Rogers

Telephony is one of those areas of life where, whether at home or at work, people do not like surprises. When people use phones, anything outside of the norm is an expectation not met, and as someone who is probably in the business of supplying telephone systems, you will know that expectations going unmet can lead to untold misery in terms of the extra work, lost money, and other problems that are associated with customer dissatisfaction.

In addition to ensuring that the user experience is in keeping with what users expect, there is also the need to make your Asterisk feel “at home.” For example, if an outbound call is placed over an analog line (FXO), Asterisk will need to interpret the tones that it “hears” on the line (busy, ringing, etc.).

By default (and maybe as one might expect, since it was “born in the USA”), Asterisk is configured to work within North America. However, since Asterisk gets deployed in many places and (thankfully) people from all over the world make contributions to it, it is quite possible to tune Asterisk for correct operation just about anywhere you choose to deploy it.

If you have been reading this book from the beginning, chapter by chapter, you will have already made some choices during installation and ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition

Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant, Leif Madsen

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781449332433Errata Page