August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
20h 33m
English
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This Book
So where to begin? Well, when it comes to Asterisk, there is far more to talk about than we can fit into one book. For now, we’re not going to take you down all the roads that the über-geeks follow—we’re just going to give you the basics.
In Chapter 2, we cover some of the engineering considerations you should keep in mind when designing a telecommunications system. You can skip much of this material if you want to get right to installing, but these are important concepts to understand, should you ever plan on putting an Asterisk system into production.
Chapter 3 covers obtaining, compiling, and installing Asterisk, and Chapter 4 deals with the initial configuration of Asterisk. Here we cover the important configuration files that must exist to define the channels and features available to your system. This will prepare you for Chapter 5, where we introduce the heart of Asterisk—the dialplan. Chapter 6 will introduce some more advanced dialplan concepts.
We will take a break from Asterisk in Chapter 7 and discuss some of the more important technologies in use in the PSTN. Naturally, following the discussion of legacy telephony, Chapter 8 discusses Voice over IP.
Chapter 9 introduces one of the more amazing components, the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI). Using Perl, PHP, and Python, we demonstrate how external programs can be used to add nearly limitless functionality to your PBX. In Chapter 14, we briefly cover what is, in fact, a rich and varied cornucopia of incredible ...
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