Organization
The book is organized into these chapters:
Chapter 1, A Telephony Revolution
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This is where we chop up the kindling, and light
the fire. Asterisk is going to change the world of telecom, and
this is where we discuss our reasons for that belief.
Chapter 2, Preparing a System for Asterisk
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Covers some of the engineering considerations
you should have in mind when designing a telecommunications system.
Much of this material can be skipped if you want to get right to
installing, but these are important concepts to understand, should
you ever plan on putting an Asterisk system into production.
Chapter 3, Installing Asterisk
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Covers the obtaining, compiling and installation
of Asterisk.
Chapter 4, Initial Configuration of Asterisk
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Describes the initial configuration of Asterisk.
Here we will cover the important configuration files that must
exist to define the channels and features available to your
system.
Chapter 5, Dialplan Basics
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Introduces the heart of Asterisk, the
dialplan.
Chapter 6, More Dialplan Concepts
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Goes over some more advanced dialplan
concepts.
Chapter 7, Understanding Telephony
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Taking a break from Asterisk, this chapter
discusses some of the more important technologies in use in the
Public Telephone Network.
Chapter 8, Protocols for VoIP
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Following the discussion of legacy telephony,
this chapter discusses Voice over IP.
Chapter 9, The Asterisk Gateway Interface
(AGI)
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Introduces one of the more amazing components,
the Asterisk Gateway Interface. Using Perl, PHP, and Python, we
demonstrate how external programs can be used to add nearly
limitless functionality to your PBX.
Chapter 10, Asterisk for the Über-Geek
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Briefly covers what is, in fact, a rich and
varied cornucopia of incredible features and functions; all part of
the Asterisk phenomenon.
Chapter 11, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
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Predicts a future where open source telephony
completely transforms an industry desperately in need of a
revolution.
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