[ale] VOIP recommendations?

[Jim Lynch]

On 08/25/2011 08:09 AM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:07:05AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:26 -0400, Byron Jeff wrote:
>>> What has eluded me so far is a clear understanding of dialplans. I get
>>> that FS facilitates complex dialplans. What I'm really looking for is
>>> a DialPlan101 discussion.
>> Ditch distributions with integrated Asterisk and pretty web pages.
>>
>> Get the Oreilly Asterisk book and start from the beginning.  Compile
>> Asterisk and configure with the editor of your choice.  Like Vim or
>> Emacs.
> FreeSwitch, not Asterisk.
>
>> I got frustrated trying to solve problems in Trixbox and not knowing
>> what I was doing so I threw that mess away and have never looked back.
>> I can write dial plans I can program AGI's now.  I have an
>> understanding.  Something I did not have when the internals were hidden
>> away for the sake of simplicity and ease of use.
> I played with Trixbox. I didn't really have a problem with digging into the
> source files to figure things out. I just haven't yet seen a clear nuts and
> bolts document to map a dialplan into freeswitch.
>
> BAJ
>
I have the official book, FreeSWITCH 1.0.6.  It's not the best manual 
I've ever read but it gives you a good intro and covers dialplans.  It's 
available as an ebook for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20.

Here's a sample I scanned in.  http://fdcga.com/fs.pdf

Dialplan processing is like sendmail.  It parses all the dialplan files 
until it finds a match and then follows the instructions.  Like answer 
and pass the call to an extension or send the call to voicemail.

Jim.