FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook

Over 45 practical recipes to empower you with the latest FreeSWITCH 1.6 features

About This Book

• Learn how to create a fast and secure messaging and telephony system with FreeSWITCH
• Trap all the common functionalities of the telephony platform using popular communication protocols
• Move recipe by recipe to get the gist of the platform

Who This Book Is For

FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook is written for anyone who wants to learn more about using FreeSWITCH in production. The information is presented in such a way that you can get up and running quickly. The cookbook approach eschews much of the foundational concepts, and instead focuses on discrete examples that illustrate specific features. If you need to implement a particular feature as quickly as possible, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Configure users and phones as well as connections to VoIP providers
• Control FreeSWITCH remotely with the powerful event socket interface
• Route inbound and outbound calls
• Insert CDRs into a database
• Enable text-to-speech in your voice applications
• Set up SSL certificates and release services to WebRTC
• Write JavaScript WebRTC clients for real time data/video/audio in browsers
• Grasp the FreeSWITCH security best practices and Lua application programming knowledge

In Detail

FreeSWITCH is an open source carrier-grade telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice, chat, and video applications, via phones and web browsers. It is scalable, carrier-ready, and easy-to-program for converged communication and VoIP. The technology serves SIP, WebRTC, PSTN, FAX, PBX, VERTO, and all the relevant channels essential to stay connected in today’s world.

In the FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook, members of the FreeSWITCH development team share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Use this knowledge to improve and expand your FreeSWITCH installations.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Routing Calls
Chapter 2: Connecting Telephones and Service Providers
Chapter 3: Processing Call Detail Records
Chapter 4: External Control
Chapter 5: PBX Functionality
Chapter 6: WebRTC and Mod_Verto
Chapter 7: Dialplan Scripting with Lua