Installing FreeSWITCH
As noted in a recent blog post, the FreeSWITCH telephony switching engine has seen a notable spike in popularity in the last couple years among VoIP system administrators and integrators. Its exceptional stability and performance power all for extreme call volumes to be handled with less hardware than most other open-source systems available. With projects like FreePBX v3 ramping up their efforts to improve front-end interactions with the immensely powerful FreeSWITCH engine, its wide-scale use seems inevitable. Installing FreeSWITCH is rather straight forward. I small list of dependencies are required, almost all of which should be available via the update / package manager of the distribution selected for the install. For the making of this document, and CentOS 5 system was setup. The systems configuration is based on XML files making the list of required tools to work with FreeSWITCH near non-existent. First item to take care ...
First Impressions On FreeSWITCH
The telephone is nothing new to most of us non-cave dwelling human beings. Its been around for as long as most people can remember and has even earned the legal right to be qualified as an essential service in most developed nations. The telephone revolutionized the communications industry, and with recent open-source project support of VoIP technologies; it shows no signs of letting up. One of the most ...
Cisco XML Services Scripting
For those who have taken the time (and frustration) to setup a VoIP network with Cisco IP Phones, it would seem natural to want to take full advantage of the more advanced functions available to these market-topping devices. One of the more powerful and easily usable functions of the Cisco IP Phone series' is the standardized XML services that can be added to nearly all of the ...
