Safari.java.net announced the availability of the second edition of the widely popular and respected book “Asterisk: The Future of Telephony”. This bestselling book has proven to be an excellent resource and guide for building and deploying phone systems with the Asterisk technology. The second edition of the book has been revised to incorporate the features from the 1.4 release of Asterisk software.

If you are planning to work on an Asterisk project or you just simply want to learn the essentials in building systems using the popular open source telephony software, this book is a must-have. Traditional telephone systems are expensive and inflexible because they are usually made with a particular set of vendors in mind. This is one of the problems that is solved by Asterisk’s powerful and highly-configurable offering. But with configurability and power comes the price of complexity and steep learning curve. This is what this book is hoping to address: The book contains many informative material on deploying a complete asterisk-based telephone system. From installing, configuring and integrating your asterisk deployment with your existing telephone system. The book will also help you setup up speech applications like speech synthesis and voice recognition.

The New edition includes the following:

• A new chapter on managing/administering your Asterisk system
• A new chapter on using Asterisk with databases
• Coverage of features in Asterisk 1.4
• A new appendix on dialplan functions
• A simplified installation chapter
• New simplified SIP configuration, including examples for several popular SIP clients (soft phones and IP telephones)
• Revised chapters and appendicies reviewed and updated for the latest in features, applications, trends and best-practices

The book is targeted to people who are new to Asterisk, but the book assumes that the reader is familiar with basic Linux administration, networking and other IT disciplines. The book is written though with the assumption that the reader is new to telecommunications, both traditional, switched telephony and the new voice over Internet protocol (VOIP).

The book contains 15 chapters of excellent material on Asterisk, including chapters on dialplan, the Asterisk gateway interface, the GUI framework, managing Asterisk sytems, and many other things.

If you have always wanted to try the Asterisk software for your telephone system needs but don’t know how to start the ball rolling, this book is an excellent start.

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