Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is the second edition of the book, revised for the 1.4 release of the Asterisk software.

Discover the open source application that has traditional telephone providers running scared!

Asterisk allows you to implement flexible dialplans that support just about any telephony application you want; you can configure it to use traditional analogue phones and trunks, in addition to VoIP phones from any vendor and VoIP services from any standards-compliant VoIP service provider.

Because it is so powerful, configuring Asterisk can seem tricky and difficult. This book will walk you through the proces of configuring your frst Asterisk system. Along the way, you'll learn how to:

• Prepare a system for Asterisk, and install it
• Configure Asterisk to use analog phones and trunks
• Configure Asterisk to use the SIP and IAX VoIP protocols
• Write dialplans, from the simple to the more complex
• Set up applications, from find-me-follow-me to Music on Hold
• Set up features such as speech synthesis and voice recognition
• Script Asterisk, using the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI)
• Manage Asterisk Installations

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