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Building Telephony Systems with Asteriskx$20.00
  (10 reviews)
Best Price: $29.99 $20.00
This book shows how to build a telephony system for your home or business using the free and open source application, Asterisk. ‘Building a Telephony System with Asterisk’ takes you step-by-step through the process of installing and configuring Asterisk. It shows you how to make a deployment plan, and how to create a dial plan. The book also presents example configurations for using Asterisk in three different scenarios: for small and home offices, small businesses, and Hosted PBX. With an engaging style and excellent way of presenting information, this book makes a complicated subject very easy to understand. This book takes you from installing and configuring Asterisk to using its various advanced features—helping you build feature-rich telephony systems. With this book, you will learn how to: * Install, configure, and deploy Asterisk * Create a dialplan that suits your needs * Build a fully-featured telephony system * Monitor, record, and log calls * Install and use Asterisk@Home * Backup, secure, and maintain Asterisk * Use example configurations for different requirements
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Customer Reviews
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Great, Practical Guide to Setting Up and Running Asterisk
By A19J0HYADJTSBX on 2005-10-15
I have very little knowledge of Asterisk, but I am a Telecom Manager and Asterisk is one of the up and coming technologies that has the potential to change how voice communications are handled. This is a great guide for those how might not know that much about telecom but are interested in either setting up an Asterisk server for your business or home. After reading it I now have a much higher comfort level about the application, how to configure it and its general capabilities.
Asterisk is open source software that runs on Linux that provides all of the features and functionality of a Private Branch Exchange (PBX)which is basically a telephone switch that businesses use to provide their telephone service. Asterisk is a free download with tremendous potential, it can allow you to build an Interactive Voice Response application which can interact with databases and provide responses based on keypad input (nearly everyone has used one of these when calling your bank or changing an airline reservation). You could also use it in your home and configure voice mail boxes for various family memebers and have other functionality which has only previously been available in a business setting.
This book was written towards people how do not necessarily have either telecom or Linux experience. It provides a brief overview of the software and general telephony and then leads into the steps which are necessary to actually set the software up on a PC, it runs through all the steps which are necessary to get Asterisk up and running and the commands which are necessary to configure the various applications such as voice mail, which reside in Asterisk.
The book also talks about Asterisk@Home which is a more user friendly installation and also gives the instructions necessary to configure Asterisk@Home for a home or small business. I would fully recommend this book to anyone looking at actually setting up an Asterisk server or anyone just interested in the capabilities of the application.
A glaring error
By A3U5JBB76BUFY4 on 2005-12-27
We wasted a few days because one of our guys read this book, and used the {exten:1} syntax that's listed in the book, instead of the correct ${EXTEN:1} variable syntax. Looks like something small, but we lost time because of it.
Great guide to getting started
By A3S68DBTBUKKEQ on 2005-10-18
If you are looking for a guide to getting your first Asterisk PBX up and running quickly, this is the book for you. It does assume some modest Linux skills but it will guide you from start to finish getting a working phone system up and running.
For a more complete review, please visit:
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Asterisk made understandable.
By A2RTG278GCV40C on 2005-11-28
When I first got this book I thought I had been ripped off ... $30 for a thin 160 pages ... Then I read it ... I was able to install an asterisk system build a dial plan ... connect with a remote service provider via PSTN and had a worldwide corporate phone system installed in 1 week.
Asterisk nice guide
By A8OV8YAN1SDQ5 on 2006-02-14
The authors
Barrie Dempster has worked as Network Administrator/IT Manager. He has a serious interest in Asterisk as an extremely powerful system, which combines his interests in open-source software, PBX systems and custom communication and conferencing systems. The present position of Barrie Dempster is a Scotland-based Infrastructure and Security consultant primarily within the financial sector.
David Gomillion received a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in August, 2005. Since his freshman year there, he has worked in the Information Technology sector. He has been a Networking Assistant, an Assistant Network Administrator, a Supervisor of a large Network and Server Operations unit, a Network Administrator, and now he is a Director of Information Technology for the Eye Center of North Florida.
The Book
I want to start this review, with saying that, when I finished reading the book, I say to my mum: "Now, I wish, I had this book at the beginning of my Asterisk career". "It would make things much easier". When I came into Asterisk, I don't ever touch a Linux machine; don't even know what apt-get means. And more: I really, really don't know were to start with Asterisk.
In 160 pages Barrie and David managed to put a lot of the information you can find on the internet in a logic order and created a good starting point for learning to work with Asterisk. The easy to read text and the overview of functions helps you to get a good knowledge of Asterisk and creates a good foundation of your Asterisk knowledge.
They put in a few complete samples for an up and running system, backing-up the system, how to secure your Asterisk box and also put in a summary of words you want to know if you get into Asterisk.
Here is a summary of things you get to know from the book:
* Install, configure, and deploy Asterisk
* Create a dialplan that suits your needs
* Build a fully-featured telephony system
* Monitor, record, and log calls
* Install and use Asterisk@Home
* Backup, secure, and maintain Asterisk
* Use example configurations for different requirements
Barrie and David, thanks!
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