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Mastering FreeSWITCH

You're reading from   Mastering FreeSWITCH Advanced tips and tricks for advanced multimedia communication

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398880
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Darren Schreiber Darren Schreiber
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Russell Treleaven Russell Treleaven
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Kalyani Kulkarni Kalyani Kulkarni
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Ken Rice Ken Rice
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Preface 1. Typical Voice Uses for FreeSWITCH FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying FreeSWITCH 3. ITSP and Voice Codecs Optimization 4. VoIP Security 5. Audio File and Streaming Formats, Music on Hold, Recording Calls 6. PSTN and TDM 7. WebRTC and Mod_Verto 8. Audio and Video Conferencing 9. Faxing and T38 10. Advanced IVR with Lua 11. Write Your FreeSWITCH Module in C 12. Tracing and Debugging VoIP 13. Homer, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Your Communication Platform Index

DIDs (aka DDIs) – numbers


DID stands for Direct Inward Dialing, while DDI means Direct Dial In, and both acronyms refer to the same thing: A phone number that will lead incoming calls to a device. In our case, a call to that number will be ringing a SIP device.

Normally a customer will port his/her pre-existing PSTN number(s) to his/her ITSP (that is, the customer's number will not make the landline ring anymore, but will ring the end customer's SIP device passing through the ITSP SIP network). ITSPs often have a specific branch of their customer service assisting in the number porting procedures.

DIDs are sought by customers for many reasons: As a primary way to get incoming phone calls (for example, the main phone number of a person or a company, if they have no previous number, or don't want to port it), or as a means to be present in local, regional, or international markets, so as to allow the public to reach a company for the cost of a local call, or to be compliant with regulations...

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