[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk book feedback

[Jason Becker]

Ross C wrote:
> Just curious what everyone (as in, the people that have read it or use it)
> thinks about the O'Reilly Asterisk book.  I'd really like to delve into the
> nitty gritty of Asterisk, but I'm getting kinda tired of swimming through
> forums and Google results.  I've been reading the wiki off and on for about
> a week now, but I'm wondering if a book would be the way to go to get a
> solid foundation.  My IT career for the past 10 years has been based off of
> learn-as-I-go methods, but I'd really like to learn asterisk the right way.
> I have a couple Asterisk servers up and running and in use, but they're very
> small systems (~10 extensions, connected to 3 or 4 pots lines).  I have some
> clients that want to use VOIP, but they're bigger businesses, and I'm not
> yet comfortable enough to roll out a bigger system.
> So if there are any other methods for learning Asterisk that I should
> consider, please do tell! 
> 
> Any opinions (on the book or otherwise) appreciated.  Thanks!

Another resource you might want to consider is Ted Wallingford's 
"Switching to VoIP":

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/switchingvoip/

It uses Asterisk extensively in examples and provides good coverage of 
concepts like QoS, codecs, etc. that are important considerations in 
many Asterisk deployments.

Regards,

-- 
Jason Becker
Director & CEO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
Enabling Open Source Telephony
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