VoIP Telephony with Asterisk
Feb.18, 2010 in
Fort Collins VoIP Products
Product Description
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 Asterisk dial plan for both analog and SIP telephones. The book’s 300 pages cover Cisco and snom telephones, Digium boards, faxing, voicemail, basic IVR and a variety of related topics…. More >>
Tags: Analog, Asterisk, Cisco, Ivr, Linux, Open Source, Product Description, Provision, S 300, Sip, Telephones, Telephony, Voip
February 18th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
The full title of this book is: “VoIP Telephony with Asterisk- A Technical Overview of the Open Source PBX”. Deceivingly, the second part of the title “A Technical Overview…”, is not part of the oficial title and thus, can only be seen on a picture, hardly, because of the relatively small font used. Search froogle for the title and you can see pictures of the front cover.
“A Technical Overview…” IS THE REAL TITLE ! It is really just a technical overview- not a very good one. There are bunches of options and syntaxes thrown all over, with very little or no explanation at all. May be, if the reader knew the principles of asterisk, that book could serve some purpose as a reference. Do not expect to learn something about asterisk from this book- this book is JUST AN OVERVIEW !
Rating: 1 / 5
February 18th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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. So, the book is about one fourth and the friendliest portion of what you need to master Asterisk. Go for it.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 18th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
This book is a perfect example of bait-and-switch. The title offers a lot but the book, being so poorly through out and edited, delivers very little.
This book is laced with poor grammar, terrible editing, incomplete thoughts and incorrect information that I wondered how it even got published. I later found out it was self-published and that explained everything.
I don’t believe the book is worth buying. It would be better to read the documentation that came with Asterisk or go to the Asterisk Wiki. You will end up with better information, more cash left in your pocket and know more.
What a poor excuse for a book.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 18th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 18th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I read a comment by the author saying that he wrote the book he’d wished he had when he began working with Asterisk. Coming from a computer background, it more than filled that need for me.
VTWA covers the basic technology concepts surrounding both traditional voice networks and voice over IP telephony, material I didn’t find on the web. It followed that with the information I needed to build my own PBX, and everything it told me to do seemed to work
I recommend the book to anyone looking for an introduction to Asterisk.
Rating: 4 / 5