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FreeSWITCH 1.8

FreeSWITCH 1.8: Get to grips with VoIP and WebRTC communication and quickly build robust telephony systems with FreeSWITCH

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FreeSWITCH 1.8

Building and Installation

FreeSWITCH is open-source software. So, you will always be able to obtain its source code for free. Also, it is a special kind of open source: you can modify it (or ask some hired consultant to modify it on your specs), build your product on top of it, and sell it, with no need to distribute your modifications or to pay any royalties (it is covered by the BSD like license). In fact, with or without your modifications, building and installing FreeSWITCH from source code is simple. We'll look into it in this chapter.

FreeSWITCH can be compiled and installed on Linux, Windows, *BSD, and OSX, on a range of hardware that spans 96 cores big datacenter servers to Raspberry Pi, from VMWare to KVM virtual machines, and from LXC containers to AWS instances.

For each and every platform, FreeSWITCH depends on a lot of pre-requisites, many libraries, tools, and...

Where to Install FreeSWITCH

FreeSWITCH can be installed on almost anything, which is good for testing, developing, and opens up a wealth of different use cases (think embedded systems and Internet of Things).

For production systems and, particularly for mission-critical systems (think the PBX of your company, or a taxi dispatching service, or your hot startup WebRTC-enabled commercial videoconferencing-cum-translation service), you have three choices: use the platforms we counsel (the most tried and true), or know exactly what you're doing (hint: it is impossible you know so much about FreeSWITCH internals), or ask for a qualified consultancy. That's important not only to save on time, money, efforts, and frustrations, but so much more for the ongoing support, bug fixing, features upgrade, and platform evolution.

...

Installing FreeSWITCH

Here we'll cover in brief the steps needed for a successful FreeSWITCH installation on two of the most popular platforms. Please be sure to check our documentation at http://www.freeswitch.org/confluence for instructions updated to the minute (FS is evolving!).

Debian 8 Jessie

This is the reference platform, the most deployed and the one on which most development is first done before being ported to other OSs and distros. If in doubt about which Linux distro to use, use this one. On Debian, both installing from source and installing from packages is supported and is mostly automated.

FreeSWITCH 1.8 announcement stated there will be support for Debian 9 "Stretch", that over time will become...

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a lot of ground:

  • On which platform FreeSWITCH can be installed
  • Preferred Platforms
  • How to Install FreeSWITCH on Debian Linux
  • How to install FreeSWITCH on Microsoft Windows
  • How to start FreeSWITCH as a background server (for example, daemon, service)
  • How to connect to it for management via fs_cli

In the next chapter, we will delve into the features available in the demo configuration that has been installed by default.

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Key benefits

  • •Learn how to install and configure a complete telephony system of your own, from scratch, using FreeSWITCH 1.6
  • •Get in-depth discussions of important concepts such as dialplan, user directory, NAT handling, and the powerful FreeSWITCH event socket
  • •Discover expert tips from the FreeSWITCH experts, including the creator of FreeSWITCH—Anthony Minessale

Description

FreeSWITCH 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 FreeSWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system. This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of FreeSWITCH. 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, OpenSS, and more, which will make FreeSWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.

Who is this book for?

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

What you will learn

  • •Build a complete WebRTC/SIP VoIP 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 FreeSWITCH
  • •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 FreeSWITCH connections with the help of effective techniques
  • •Deploy all FreeSWITCH features using best practices and expert tips
  • •Overcome frustrating NAT issues
  • •Control FreeSWITCH remotely with the all-powerful event socket
  • •Trace packets, check debug logging, ask for community and commercial help
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Architecture of FreeSWITCH Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building and Installation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Test Driving the Example Configuration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
User Directory, SIP, and Verto Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
WebRTC, SIP, and Verto Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
XML Dialplan Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Phrase Macros and XML IVRs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dialplan in Deep Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Handling NAT Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VoIP Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Muy bien estructurado y como guía para la versión (mas adelantada) que tenemos actualmente, pero nos da una muy buena guía para entender y configurar un Freeswitch para llevarlo a producción. Gran compra.
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Material sobre nova forma de se prover telefonia. Última versão 1.10
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Honestly this book is informative, but would it have killed the publisher to hire an editor and clean up the horrible grammar and include additional clarification in places? It makes the book really hard to read at times. The images (that contain pictures of example code) are tiny and hard to read, and some of them even have the mouse cursor covering relevant parts! The only reason this isn't getting 1 or even 2 stars is because it has pointed me in the right direction.
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Overall I am finding the book helpful but it is woefully outdated and there are grammatical and spelling errors on each page. It does make the book a bit hard to understand certain contexts.
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