Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, Second Edition

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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, Second Edition

By Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen,

Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 602
Publication Date: 2007-08-28
Sales Rank: 36857
ISBN / ASIN: 0596510489
EAN: 9780596510480
Binding: Perfect Paperback
Manufacturer: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Average Rating: 4

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.

Review:

Good overview

I was looking to this book to gain an overview of Asterisk. As is usually the case with O’ Reilly books, this one did not disappoint. I would definitely recommend this to anybody who is starting to explore Asterisk.

Additionally, there are references and details useful for continuing your understanding of this wonderful platform. There is a lot of information that can get you started with a hands-on Asterisk experience.

Review:

Very good book

This is a very good book well suitable to even beginners. contents are explained very well. I made my asterisk system work by referring this book.

Review:

Dated. Rambling.

The asterisk software has progressed substantially, but worse, the organization of what’s important and what’s not makes this book hold the distinct honor of being in the top five worst books by O’Reilly Press.

Review:

great for the initiated

Its a great book to learn Asterisk from the very beging, it goes trought the concept of telephony to creating a campaign.

Its a great book for understanding, setting up and administration of Asterisk as a PBX, it doesnt go futher this.

The down side is for the very very beginners, you should at least know the basics of telephony systems and to be a linux administrator.

But its a must if you are planning to install an Asterisk system.

Review:

Bleah

This book really isn’t all that great and leaves many a stone unturned for novice and professional alike, but I’ll give it three stars anyway just because you can legally download an electronic copy for free right from the “Support” section of the main Asterisk website.

If you want a book that’s going to explain how to configure VoIP hardware that isn’t sold by Digium, try “Switching to VoIP” and just stick to the online docs and sample config comments for Asterisk.

http://mihd.net/mqeioc

http://rapidshare.com/files/62608090/9780596510480.pdf

http://rapidshare.com/files/62611923/Asterisk-The_Future_of_Telephony-2nd.Ed-0596510489.rar