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Get to the heart of a Asterisk VoIP system through the dialplan

Overview This sample chapter, taken from Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, discusses the basics of the dialplan so that you can successfully set up your own Asterisk system.

Asterisk is a VoIP system running under Linux. The heart of the Asterisk VoIP system is the dialplan, which is completely configurable.

This sample chapter from Asterisk: The Future of Telephony provides a step-by-step explanation of how dialplans work, and it teaches you the skills necessary to create your own.

Title: Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
ISBN: 0596009623
Published: First Edition September 2005
Author: Jared Smith, Jim Van Meggelen, Leif Madsen
Chapter: Chapter 5: Dialplan Basics
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	TechRepublic	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2005	Downloads	339
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Topics	VoIP - IP Telephony

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