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| View Larger Image | Asterisk: The Future of Telephony | Paperbackby Jim Van Meggelen (Author), Leif Madsen (Author), Jared W Smith (Author)
| List Price: | $39.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | O'Reilly Media | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 380 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 263,182rd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
It may be a while before Internet telephony with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) reaches critical mass, but there's already tremendous movement in that direction. A lot of organizations are not only attracted to VoIP's promise of cost savings, but its ability to move data, images, and voice traffic over the same connection. Think of it: a single Internet phone call can take information sharing to a whole new level. That's why many IT administrators and developers are actively looking to set up VoIP-based private telephone switching systems within the enterprise. The efficiency that network users can reach with it is almost mind-boggling. And cheap, if the system is built with open source software like Asterisk. There are commercial VoIP options out there, but many are expensive systems running old, complicated code on obsolete hardware. Asterisk runs on Linux and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment. And you can program it to your liking. Asterisk's flexibility comes at a price, however: it's not a simple system to learn, and the documentation is lacking. "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" solves that problem by offering a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with existing phone systems. Our guide walks you through a basic dial plan step by step, and gives you enough working knowledge to set up a simple but complete system. What you end up with is largely up to you. Asterisk embraces the concept of standards-compliance, but also gives you freedom to choose how to implement your system. "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" outlines all the options, and shows you how to set up voicemail services, call conferencing, interactive voice response, call waiting, caller ID, and more. You'll also learn how Asterisk merges voice and data traffic seamlessly across disparate networks. And you won't need additional hardware. For interconnection with digital and analog telephone equipment, Asterisk supports a number of hardware devices. Ready for the future of telephony? We'll help you hook it up. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 30 reviews)
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Good overview by D. Miller (Murrysville, PA United States)  5 Stars
August 23, 2007
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.
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Very good book by Jim (Nc, usa)  4 Stars
June 08, 2007
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.
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Dated. Rambling. by Walter Stoneburner (Ashburn, VA USA)  1 Stars
May 08, 2007
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.
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great for the initiated by Juan Valencia (Guatemala) 5 Stars
April 14, 2007
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.
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Bleah by orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States)  3 Stars
January 17, 2007
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.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Switching to VoIP
by Theodore Wallingford (Author)
More and more businesses today have their receive phone service through Internet instead of local phone company lines. Many businesses are also using their internal local and wide-area network infrastructure to replace legacy enterprise telephone networks. This migration to a single network carrying voice and data is called convergence, and it's revolutionizing the world of telecommunications by slashing costs and empowering users. The technology of families driving this convergence is...
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| Building Telephony Systems with Asterisk
by David Gomillion (Author), Barrie Dempster (Author)
An easy introduction to using and configuring Asterisk to build feature-rich telephony systems for small and medium businesses. Install, configure, deploy, secure, and maintain AsteriskBuild a fully-featured telephony system and create a dial plan that suits your needsLearn from example configurations for different requirements In Detail Asterisk is a powerful and flexible open source framework for building feature-rich telephony systems. As a Private Branch Exchange (PBX)...
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| VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony
by Ted Wallingford (Author)
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of attention these days, as more companies and individuals switch from standard telephone service to phone service via the Internet. The reason is simple: A single network to carry voice and data is easier to scale, maintain, and administer. As an added bonus, it's also cheaper, because VoIP is free of the endless government regulations and tariffs imposed upon phone companies. VoIP is simply overflowing with hack potential, and "VoIP...
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| Asterisk For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
by Stephen P. Olejniczak (Author), Brady Kirby (Author), Mark Spencer (Foreword)
Your company can save tons of money by taking advantage of Asterisk, an open-source PBX that allows you to bridge data and voice communications. Asterisk for Dummies saves you all the worries and confusion with its easy-to-use, step-by-step walkthrough of the entire program that will have you set up in no time! Asterisk takes the data side of telecom and applies it to the handling and processing of voice calls. This book will show you everything you need to know to install, program,...
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| Asterisk Hacking
by Ben Jackson (Author), Champ Clark (Author), Johnny Long (Technical Editor), Larry Chaffin (Technical Editor)
Asterisk Hacking shows readers about a hacking technique they may not be aware of. It teaches the secrets the bad guys already know about stealing personal information through the most common, seemingly innocuous, highway into computer networks: the phone system. The book also comes with an Asterisk Live CD (SLAST) containing all the tools discussed in the book and ready to boot!
This book shows readers what they can do to protect themselves, their families, their clients, and their...
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