Asterisk 1.4 The professionals Guide

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.

What you will learn from this book?

• The basic components of an AsteriskNOW telephony system
• Installing AsteriskNOW
• Building an office PBX using AsteriskNOW
• Using the AsteriskNOW web GUI interface
• Configuring an IP soft phone: CounterPath X-Lite
• Configuring an IP hard phone: LinkSys 941
• Configuring an IP adapter
• Configuring a connection for an IAX2 DID provider
• How to plan the routing logic of your PBX
• How to record your system announcements
• Building a menu using the GUI wizard
• Configuring and using conference rooms with the conferencing system
• Writing your own applications for Asterisk with the Asterisk Gateway Interface

Who this book is written for?

This book is for complete beginners who are interested in setting up their own telephony system and are overwhelmed with the configuration options in Asterisk. It shows how to install and configure AsteriskNow and configure the required dial plan.