FreeSWITCH 1.8
Get to grips with VoIP and WebRTC communication and quickly build robust telephony systems with FreeSWITCH
Published on 8. July 2025
434 pages
978-1-78588-829-8 (ISBN)
Description
Build a robust, high-performance telephony system with FreeSWITCH
Key Features
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
Book DescriptionFreeSWITCH 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. 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
Who this book is forThis 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.
Key Features
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
Book DescriptionFreeSWITCH 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. 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
Who this book is forThis 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.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
10,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78588-829-8 (9781785888298)
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Anthony Minessale Ii | Giovanni Maruzzelli
FreeSWITCH 1.8
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07/2017
Packt Publishing
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Persons
Maruzzelli Giovanni :
Giovanni Maruzzelli (gmaruzz@OpenTelecom.IT) is heavily engaged with FreeSWITCH. In it, he wrote a couple of endpoint modules, and he is specialized in industrial grade deployments and solutions. He's the curator and coauthor of FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2015), and of Mastering FreeSWITCH (Packt Publishing, 2016) He's a consultant in the telecommunications sector, developing software and conducting training courses for FreeSWITCH, SIP, WebRTC, Kamailio, and OpenSIPS. As an Internet technology pioneer, he was the cofounder of Italia Online in 1996, which was the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP. Also, he was the architect of its Internet technologies Italia Online (IOL). Back then, Giovanni was the supervisor of Internet operations and the architect of the first engine for paid access to il Sole 24 Ore, the most-read financial newspaper in Italy, and its databases (migrated from the mainframe). After that, he was the CEO of the venture capital-funded company Matrice, developing telemail unified messaging and multiple-language phone access to e-mail (text to speech). He was also the CTO of the incubator-funded company Open4, an open source managed applications provider. For 2 years, Giovanni worked in Serbia as an Internet and telecommunications investment expert for IFC, an arm of the World Bank. Since 2005, he has been based in Italy, and he serves ICT and telecommunication companies worldwide.Minessale II Anthony :
Anthony Minessale II is the primary author and founding member of the FreeSWITCH Open Source Soft-Switch. Anthony has spent around 20 years working with open source software. In 2001, Anthony spent a great deal of time contributing code to the Asterisk PBX and has authored numerous features and fixes to that project. In 2005, Anthony started coding a new idea for an open source voice application. The FreeSWITCH project was officially open to the public on January 1 2006. In the years that followed, Anthony has been actively maintaining and leading the software development of the FreeSWITCH project. Anthony also founded the ClueCon Technology Conference in 2005, and he continues to oversee the production of this annual event. Anthony has been the author of several FreeSWITCH books, including FreeSWITCH 1.0.6, FreeSWITCH 1.2, FreeSWITCH Cookbook, FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook, and Mastering FreeSWITCH
Giovanni Maruzzelli (gmaruzz@OpenTelecom.IT) is heavily engaged with FreeSWITCH. In it, he wrote a couple of endpoint modules, and he is specialized in industrial grade deployments and solutions. He's the curator and coauthor of FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2015), and of Mastering FreeSWITCH (Packt Publishing, 2016) He's a consultant in the telecommunications sector, developing software and conducting training courses for FreeSWITCH, SIP, WebRTC, Kamailio, and OpenSIPS. As an Internet technology pioneer, he was the cofounder of Italia Online in 1996, which was the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP. Also, he was the architect of its Internet technologies Italia Online (IOL). Back then, Giovanni was the supervisor of Internet operations and the architect of the first engine for paid access to il Sole 24 Ore, the most-read financial newspaper in Italy, and its databases (migrated from the mainframe). After that, he was the CEO of the venture capital-funded company Matrice, developing telemail unified messaging and multiple-language phone access to e-mail (text to speech). He was also the CTO of the incubator-funded company Open4, an open source managed applications provider. For 2 years, Giovanni worked in Serbia as an Internet and telecommunications investment expert for IFC, an arm of the World Bank. Since 2005, he has been based in Italy, and he serves ICT and telecommunication companies worldwide.Minessale II Anthony :
Anthony Minessale II is the primary author and founding member of the FreeSWITCH Open Source Soft-Switch. Anthony has spent around 20 years working with open source software. In 2001, Anthony spent a great deal of time contributing code to the Asterisk PBX and has authored numerous features and fixes to that project. In 2005, Anthony started coding a new idea for an open source voice application. The FreeSWITCH project was officially open to the public on January 1 2006. In the years that followed, Anthony has been actively maintaining and leading the software development of the FreeSWITCH project. Anthony also founded the ClueCon Technology Conference in 2005, and he continues to oversee the production of this annual event. Anthony has been the author of several FreeSWITCH books, including FreeSWITCH 1.0.6, FreeSWITCH 1.2, FreeSWITCH Cookbook, FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook, and Mastering FreeSWITCH
Content
Table of Contents
Architecture of FreeSWITCH
Building and Installation
Test Driving the Example Configuration
User Directory, SIP, and Verto
WebRTC, SIP, and Verto
XML Dialplan
Phrase Macros and XML IVRs
Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting
Dialplan in Deep
Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts
ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events
HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action
Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing
Handling NAT
VoIP Security
Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs
Architecture of FreeSWITCH
Building and Installation
Test Driving the Example Configuration
User Directory, SIP, and Verto
WebRTC, SIP, and Verto
XML Dialplan
Phrase Macros and XML IVRs
Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting
Dialplan in Deep
Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts
ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events
HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action
Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing
Handling NAT
VoIP Security
Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs
