[ale] VOIP recommendations?

[Byron Jeff]

Looks helpful. May pick up a copy.

BAJ

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 08:09 AM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:07:05AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:26 -0400, Byron Jeff wrote:
> >>> What has eluded me so far is a clear understanding of dialplans. I get
> >>> that FS facilitates complex dialplans. What I'm really looking for is
> >>> a DialPlan101 discussion.
> >> Ditch distributions with integrated Asterisk and pretty web pages.
> >>
> >> Get the Oreilly Asterisk book and start from the beginning.  Compile
> >> Asterisk and configure with the editor of your choice.  Like Vim or
> >> Emacs.
> > FreeSwitch, not Asterisk.
> >
> >> I got frustrated trying to solve problems in Trixbox and not knowing
> >> what I was doing so I threw that mess away and have never looked back.
> >> I can write dial plans I can program AGI's now.  I have an
> >> understanding.  Something I did not have when the internals were hidden
> >> away for the sake of simplicity and ease of use.
> > I played with Trixbox. I didn't really have a problem with digging into the
> > source files to figure things out. I just haven't yet seen a clear nuts and
> > bolts document to map a dialplan into freeswitch.
> >
> > BAJ
> >
> I have the official book, FreeSWITCH 1.0.6.  It's not the best manual 
> I've ever read but it gives you a good intro and covers dialplans.  It's 
> available as an ebook for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20.
> 
> Here's a sample I scanned in.  http://fdcga.com/fs.pdf
> 
> Dialplan processing is like sendmail.  It parses all the dialplan files 
> until it finds a match and then follows the instructions.  Like answer 
> and pass the call to an extension or send the call to voicemail.
> 
> Jim.
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Byron A. Jeff
Department Chair: IT/CS/CNET
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
Clayton State University
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