Packt is pleased to announce a new book titled “Asterisk 1.6” which helps readers build a fully featured telephony system through the Asterisk platform. Written by three Asterisk Professionals, this book is an easy to understand guide that helps readers to install, configure, deploy, secure, and maintain Asterisk in small, medium and large businesses.
Asterisk is the world's leading open-source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit with immense flexibility. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. Originally designed for Linux, Asterisk now runs on different operating systems including NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
Asterisk 1.6 will help readers connect their Asterisk server with the phone service via PSTN,SIP and deploy some basic PBX features such as queues, voicemail and music on hold. They will also learn to install and use FreePBX, asterCRM as well as monitor, record, and capture detailed call logs, thereby streamlining their business operations.
Each chapter in this book progressively introduces the readers to topics such as Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN), Voice over IP Connections (SIP / IAX), DAHDI and libpri. Furthermore, Asterisk users will also learn security precautions, network deployment recommendations and maintenance tips such as backups and preparing disaster recovery plans, which would ensure a smooth,secure Asterisk system.
Anyone who is interested in building a powerful telephony system using Asterisk will find this book a pleasant read and highly beneficial. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/
