• Title: Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
• Author(s) Leif Madsen, Russell Bryant, Jim Van Meggelen
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Third Edition edition (March 15, 2011), eBook Draft (4th Edition, 2013)
• Paperback: 500 pages
• eBook: HTML and PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596517343
• ISBN-13: 978-0596517342
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Book Description

Design a complete Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or analog PBX with Asterisk, even if you have only basic telecommunications knowledge. This bestselling guide makes it easy with a detailed roadmap to installing, configuring, and integrating this open source software into your existing phone system.

Revised for the upcoming 1.8 release of the Asterisk open source PBX, this bestselling guide provides a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating this powerful software with existing phone systems. Asterisk: The Definitive Guide has everything you need to know to design a complete VoIP or analog system with little or no Asterisk experience, and no more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge.

Written for experienced Linux power users and administrators, this book shows you how to write a basic dialplan step-by-step, and quickly gets you up to speed on several features new to Asterisk, including:

• Skype for Asterisk
• Fax capabilities (T.38)
• Clustering with Open AIS
• Jabber integration and XMPP
• Heartbeat cluster infrastructure (LinuxHA, failover)
• ISN and ENUM -- methods of circumventing the PSTN by dialing SIP URIs with numbers
• Security profile for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

• Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions.
• Leif Madsen first got involved with the Asterisk community when he was looking for a voice conferencing solution.
• Russell Bryant is the Engineering Manager for the Open Source Software team at Digium, Inc. He has been a core member of the Asterisk development team since the Fall of 2004. .

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