Anthony Minessale II & Giovanni Maruzzelli 
FreeSWITCH 1.8 [EPUB ebook] 

Build a robust, high-performance telephony system with Free SWITCH

• Learn how to install and configure a complete telephony system of your own, from scratch, using Free SWITCH 1.6


• Get in-depth discussions of important concepts such as dialplan, user directory, NAT handling, and the powerful Free SWITCH event socket


• Discover expert tips from the Free SWITCH experts, including the creator of Free SWITCH—Anthony Minessale

This book is for beginner-level IT professionals and enthusiasts who are interested in quickly getting a powerful telephony system up and running using Free SWITCH. It would be good if you have some telephony experience, but it’s not a must.

• Build a complete Web RTC/SIP Vo IP platform able to interconnect and process audio and video in real time


• Use advanced PBX features to create powerful dialplans


• Understand the inner workings and architecture of Free SWITCH


• Real time configuration from database and webserver with mod_xml_curl


• Integrate browser clients into your telephony service


• Use scripting to go beyond the dialplan with the power and flexibility of a programming language


• Secure your Free SWITCH connections with the help of effective techniques


• Deploy all Free SWITCH features using best practices and expert tips


• Overcome frustrating NAT issues


• Control Free SWITCH remotely with the all-powerful event socket


• Trace packets, check debug logging, ask for community and commercial help

Free SWITCH 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. This book introduces Free SWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system.

This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of Free SWITCH. We then move on to the fundamentals and the new features added in version 1.6, showing you how to set up a basic system so you can make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality.

Once you have a basic system in place, we’ll show you how to add more and more functionalities to it. You’ll learn to deploy the features on the system using unique techniques and tips to make it work better.

Also, there are changes in the security-related components, which will affect the content in the book, so we will make that intact with the latest version. There are new support libraries introduced, such as SQLite, Open SS, and more, which will make Free SWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.

This easy-to-follow guide helps you understand every topic easily using real-world examples of Free SWITCH tasks. This book is full of practical code so you get a gradual learning curve.