VoIP Telephony with Asterisk

By Paul Mahler

VoIP Telephony with Asterisk is the best-selling introduction to the leading open source PBX software. You'll learn how to provision telephony, install and compile Linux and Asterisk, and configure an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975999206
• ISBN13: 9780975999202
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Signate
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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. Thankfully this book fills in a lot of gaps and provides a better overall picture to me. I recommend this book and thank the author for helping me get my work done.

Very good reference for Asterisk

This book is a good attempt to hit the moving target that is Asterisk. I keep coming back to it and finding things to try and use. There is a lot of really good content and the Author does a good job of citing his sources too. 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. I wish this book had introduced it a little better. Additionally, more dial plan and configuration file examples would have been a very helpful resource. This book has been invaluable to me starting out with Asterisk. I would welcome updates and revisions as Asterisk expands.

Excellent intro to VOIP and the Asterisk PBX

This is the book that you need to get started with do-it-yourself VOIP using the open-source Asterisk PBX software. Mahler's book will help you learn VOIP basics and serve as a convenienct reference for setting up and maintaining Asterisk systems. Highly recommended.

Great Intro!

After reading the book and reading the reviews here I would firstly like to comment on the bad reviews given. Question to you guys: -Does someone with a science degree need to read a step-by-step book on how to mix baking soda and vinegar together jsut to see what happens? -Did you really think that the author would put the hundreds and hundreds of pages from the RFC's in the book?? HA! I'm VERY glad that the book was writin by a VoIP specialist and was verified by VOIP specialists and not an English Professor (i'm excusing the mistakes :P) This book is a "Introduction" to VoIP with Asterisk. Not a VoIP bible!!! When you are dealing with Open-Source you are usually forced to scatter all over the net to find even basic documentation on what your working on. This book put Asterisk and all of its respective services into a simple, clear and informative reference. It helps you get an Asterisk box up and running with all its whistles and bells up in just a few days, and you actually understand whats going on!! It also gives you great ideas on how to market it as well ;). Want to get into Open Source VoIP? Get this book! ...for 50 bucks you CANT go wrong!

Great book on how to get started with Asterisk

This book was get help to get me started with Asterisk. The thing that was great help was that he told how some thing would work and then showed you how to do it, especially in chapter 8 with loading zaptel modules. Great book I hope he writes another one on advance topics on asterisk.