a practical guide for deploying and managing an Asterisk-based telephony system using the AsteriskNOW software appliance /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nir Simionovich ; reviewers, Kimberly Collins, Kristian Kielhofner.
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Birmingham, U.K. :
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Packt Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (iv, 185 pages) :
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illustrations.
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From technologies to solutions
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
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Title from title screen.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Telephony and Asterisk; The Basics of Traditional Telephony; Circuit Switching; A Circuit-Switched Network; Signalling System # 7 (SS7); Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN); The Basics of Voice over IP (VoIP) Technology; Session Initiation Protocol-SIP; Inter-Asterisk eXchange Protocol-IAX; NAT/PAT: IAX2 versus SIP and H.323; CODECS-Voice Coder Decoder; Asterisk-The Open-Source PBX; Asterisk is Dually Licensed-What Does it Mean?
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Chapter 6: ""Let me in!""-Inbound Call RoutingInbound DID Routing versus Analog Physical Routing; Inbound Routing via DID Numbers; Inbound Routing via Physical Ports; Routing Type Comparison Table; Inbound Call Routing with AsteriskNOW; Example 1: Routing in a Single DID Number; Example 2: Routing in a Range of DID Numbers; Inbound Call Routing in extensions.conf; Summary; Chapter 7: ""For Annoyance, Press 1""-Voice Menus and IVR; Four Rules of IVR; Voice Menus-AsteriskNOW's IVR Generator; Voice Menu Steps-The Voice Menu Flow; DISA-Direct Inward System Access
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Enter the Asterisk-the Future is HereAsteriskNOW-The Asterisk Software Appliance; Summary; Chapter 2: Building a PBX; Objective-Building an Office PBX; Physical Connectivity; Installation Procedure Outline; Downloading AsteriskNOW; AsteriskNOW Hardware Requirements; The Installation Process; Anatomy of the AsteriskNOW Configuration GUI; Introduction to the rPath Appliance GUI; Summary; Chapter 3: Extensions, Phones, and Others; An IP Phone is a Simplified Computer; AsteriskNOW Extension Management GUI; The User Extensions Configuration Options; The ""User Extension"" Configuration Flags
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Recordings-Menus and System PlaybacksTime Based Rules; Ring Groups; Enough Theory, Back to Voice Menus; Summary; Chapter 8: Voicemail, Conferencing, and Parking-Advanced PBX Services; Comedian Mail-The Asterisk Voicemail System; Voicemail General Options; Voicemail Message Options; Voicemail Playback Options; MeetMe Conferencing; Conference User and Administrator Key Presses; Defining a New Conference Room; General Conference Options; Conference Password Settings; Conference Room Options; Call Parking; Summary; Chapter 9: ""Please hold, we'll be with you shortly""-Simple Call Queues
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The LinkSys 941CounterPath X-Lite-The Worlds Most Popular Soft Phone; Summary; Chapter 4: Service Providers-Your Connection to the World; VoIP Carriers; Direct Inward Dialing (DID/DDI) Carriers; Refilers and Grey Routes; PSTN Carriers-Traditional Telephony Providers; VoIP Service Providers-Few Examples; Inbound DID/DDI Service Providers; Termination and Residential Service Providers; Connecting to a Custom VoIP Termination Provider; Summary; Chapter 5: Tentacles of the PBX-The Calling Rules Tables; Managing Routing Rules with AsteriskNOW; Manually Editing Dial-Plan Logic; Summary
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"AsteriskNOW is an open-source Software Appliance from Digium: a customized Linux distribution, which includes Asterisk (the leading open-source telephony engine and tool kit), the AsteriskGUI, and all the other software needed for an Asterisk telephony system. AsteriskNOW is easy to install. It allows you to deploy Asterisk quickly and easily, and offers flexibility, functionality and features that are available only in expensive proprietary business systems"--Resource description page.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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Safari Books Online
Stock Number
CL0500000073
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
AsteriskNOW.
International Standard Book Number
9781847192882
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Asterisk (Computer file)
Asterisk (Computer file)
Asterisk (Computer file)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Internet telephony.
COMPUTERS-- System Administration-- Email Administration.