[ale] VOIP recommendations?

[Jim Lynch]

On 08/25/2011 04:32 PM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> Looks helpful. May pick up a copy.
>
> BAJ
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> 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.
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If you have any questions, I'll glad to try to answer them, or if you 
want to chat on some sort of IM (Skype?) I'm open for that too.

Jim.