VoIP Telephony with Asterisk eBook Download
The book's 300 pages cover Cisco and snom telephones, Digium boards, faxing, voicemail, basic IVR and a variety of related topics.
A must have if you work with VoIP
Even if the book is not perfectly written, in the sense that there are some typos and some glitches in the explanations, it is still a wonderful source to learn Asterisk configuration.
The book alone won't do everything for you, you'll need to read all sample configuration files from Asterisk installation, check as many pages as you can from voip-info.org, and play with configurations as much as possible.
It does help on understanding a little about Asterisk if you are an absolute beginner, but if you managed to install an Asterisk server based on the information already avaliable in the wikipedia at voip-info.org then you dont need this book.
The good thing: this is the first effort to document Asterisk for the public, there is no other good book to compare it at this moment, I hope the second edition corrects all the errors.
Finally, a cohesive overview of Asterisk
I've been working with Asterisk for six months and the documentation on the Internet is either scant or too technical. I recommend this book and thank the author for helping me get my work done.
Disorganized, incomplete
Reading some of the positive reviews about this book, it's hard to believe it's the same one I bought. Paul Mahler's book is the only one I could find on Asterisk so it's the one I chose, :-) Reading it straight through wasn't too bad: there's a lot of information in there.
I was reading one section and I knew I'd read it before.
This book could do more for introducing the beginner to Asterisk - the concept of extensions in the dial plan is key to understanding Asterisk and it is a strange paradigm until you understand it.
This book has been invaluable to me starting out with Asterisk.
A must have if you work with VoIP
Even if the book is not perfectly written, in the sense that there are some typos and some glitches in the explanations, it is still a wonderful source to learn Asterisk configuration.
The book alone won't do everything for you, you'll need to read all sample configuration files from Asterisk installation, check as many pages as you can from voip-info.org, and play with configurations as much as possible.
It does help on understanding a little about Asterisk if you are an absolute beginner, but if you managed to install an Asterisk server based on the information already avaliable in the wikipedia at voip-info.org then you dont need this book.
The good thing: this is the first effort to document Asterisk for the public, there is no other good book to compare it at this moment, I hope the second edition corrects all the errors.
Finally, a cohesive overview of Asterisk
I've been working with Asterisk for six months and the documentation on the Internet is either scant or too technical. I recommend this book and thank the author for helping me get my work done.
Disorganized, incomplete
Reading some of the positive reviews about this book, it's hard to believe it's the same one I bought. Paul Mahler's book is the only one I could find on Asterisk so it's the one I chose, :-) Reading it straight through wasn't too bad: there's a lot of information in there.
I was reading one section and I knew I'd read it before.
This book could do more for introducing the beginner to Asterisk - the concept of extensions in the dial plan is key to understanding Asterisk and it is a strange paradigm until you understand it.
This book has been invaluable to me starting out with Asterisk.
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Publisher: Signate
ISBN: 0975999206 / 9780975999202
Pages: 306
Publication Date: Aug 1, 2010
eBook Subject: Computer & Internet
