Press Release
September 4, 2007
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony--New from O'Reilly: The Definitive Guide to Telecom's Cultural and Technical Revolution
Sebastopol, CA--The telephony revolution is underway--a transformation
fueled by an open source PBX called Asterisk.
"Asterisk lovingly embraces the concept of standards compliance, while
also enjoying the freedom to develop its own innovation. What you choose
to implement is up to you--Asterisk imposes no limitations," explain the
expert authors of the new edition of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
(Jim Van Meggelen, Leif Madsen, and Jared Smith, O'Reilly, $44.99).
Updated and expanded for the 1.4 release of the software, this major
revision shows readers how they can save money and stay in control of
their telephone systems. The new edition also includes greatly expanded
coverage of SIP, databases, and up-to-the-minute information on management
and administration.
Indeed, using Asterisk, developers can tinker with their phone calls just
like mechanics tinker with their cars. They can add features, increase
performance, add redundancy, and increase collaboration. With Asterisk,
users are no longer dependent on expensive and inflexible systems that are
tuned to the vendor's needs, rather than the end user's.
Yet Asterisk's flexibility comes at a price, however: it's not a simple
system to learn and configuring can seem tricky. Fortunately, this new
book offers a detailed roadmap--guiding every user through the process of
writing a dialplan, integrating phone systems with a relational database,
scripting Asterisk with the manager interface and AGI, using Ruby on Rails
with Adhearsion, and much more.
Indeed, this timely new book covers everything users need to design a
simple but complete system with little or no Asterisk experience, and no
more than rudimentary telecommunications knowledge.
The new edition includes:
- A new chapter on managing and administering an Asterisk system
- A new chapter on using Asterisk with databases
- Coverage of features in Asterisk 1.4
- A new appendix on dialplan functions
- A simplified installation chapter
- New simplified SIP configuration, including examples for several popular
SIP clients (soft phones and IP telephones)
- Revised chapters and appendices reviewed and updated for the latest in
features, applications, trends, and best practices
The future of telephony is here--and with Asterisk: The Future of
Telephony, readers can embrace it, too.
Jim Van Meggelen is President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a
Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions. He has over
fifteen years of enterprise telecom experience, for such companies as
Nortel, Williams and Telus, and has has extensive knowledge of both legacy
and VoIP equipment from manufacturers such as Nortel, Cisco and Avaya.
Jared Smith is a long time member of the Asterisk community, and a
co-founder of the Asterisk Documentation Project. Jared has over a decade
of systems administration and programming experience, along with several
years of professional telephony and voice-over-IP experience. As the
architect of one of the world's largest Asterisk installations, he has a
wealth of hands-on Asterisk knowledge.
Leif Madsen first took an interest in Asterisk while attempting to find a
voice conferencing solution for him and his friends. After someone
suggested trying Asterisk, the obsession began. Wanting to contribute and
be involved with the community, and noticing the lack of Asterisk
documentation, he co-founded the Asterisk Documentation Project.
More information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bios, and samples
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, Second Edition
Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
ISBN: 0-596-51048-9, $44.99 USD
order@oreilly.com
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