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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition
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This bestselling book is now the standard guide to building phone systems with
Asterisk, the open source IP PBX that has traditional telephony providers running
scared! Revised for the 1.4 release of the software, the new edition of Asterisk:
The Future of Telephony reveals how you can save money on equipment and
support, and finally be in control of your telephone system.
If you've worked with telephony in the past, you're familiar with the problem:
expensive and inflexible systems that are tuned to the vendor's needs, not yours.
Asterisk isn't just a candle in the darkness, it's a whole fireworks show. Because
Asterisk is so powerful, configuring it can seem tricky and difficult. This
book steps you through the process of installing, configuring, and integrating
Asterisk with your existing phone system.
You'll learn how to write dialplans, set up applications including speech synthesis
and voice recognition, how to script Asterisk, and much more -- everything you
need to design a simple but complete system with little or no Asterisk experience,
and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge. The book includes:
- A new chapter on managing/administering your Asterisk system
- A new chapter on using Asterisk with databases
- Coverage of features in Asterisk 1.4
- A new appendix on dialplan functions
- A simplified installation chapter
- New simplified SIP configuration, including examples for several popular
SIP clients (soft phones and IP telephones)
- Revised chapters and appendicies reviewed and updated for the latest in
features, applications, trends and best-practices
Asterisk is revolutionizing the telecom industry, due in large part to the
way it gets along with other network applications. While other PBXs are fighting
their inevitable absorption into the network, Asterisk embraces it. If you need
to take control of your telephony systems, move to Asterisk and see what the
future of telecommunications looks like.
About the Author
Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based
provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over fifteen years of enterprise
telecom experience, for such companies as Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has
has extensive knowledge of both legacy and VoIP equipment from manufacturers
such as Nortel, Cisco and Avaya.
Jim was the architect of two of the world's largest managed enterprise voice
networks; each solution serving roughly twenty-thousand users in more than one-thousand
communities across Canada, providing telecommunications in five different languages,
through six time zones, administered completely from a central location. These
networks pioneered the use of extensive automation and database control in a
branch voice network - functionalities not generally available in proprietary
telecommunications systems. Jim has now moved on from the world of proprietary
telecom, and is commited to open-source telephony.
Jim is one of the principal contributors to the Asterisk Documentation Project,
and is co-author of the bestselling O'Reilly book, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony.
He enjoys teaching, public speaking, improvisational acting, and writing.
Jim lives in Toronto with his wife and three children.
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