Asterisk 1.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Introduction to Asterisk
What is Asterisk?
What's new in Asterisk 1.4?
What's new in Asterisk 1.6?
Is Asterisk a good fit for me?
Summary
Making a Plan for Deployment
The Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN)
Terminal equipment
How much hardware do I need?
Choosing the extension length
Preparing a test environment
Installing Asterisk
Preparing to install Asterisk
Obtaining the source files
Installing DAHDI
Installing LibPRI (optional)
Getting to know Asterisk
Configuring Asterisk
DAHDI interfaces
SIP interfaces
IAX interfaces
Voicemail
Music on hold
Queues
Conference rooms
Creating a Dialplan
Creating a context
Creating an extension
Creating outgoing extensions
Advanced Call Distribution
Automated attendants
System services
Quality Assurance
Call Detail Records
Monitoring calls
Recording calls
Legal concerns
Making Asterisk Easy to Manage
Trixbox
CentOS
Trixbox preparation and installation
What is FreePBX?
A simple one-to-one PBX
What is asterCRM?
Installing asterCRM
Introducing asterCRM
Case Studies
Small office/home office
Small business
Hosted PBX
Maintenance and Security
Backup and system maintenance
Asterisk server security
Host security hardening for Asterisk
Network security for Asterisk
Asterisk scalability
Support channels for Asterisk
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