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FreeSWITCH is an open-source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products.

FreeSWITCH is an open-source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products.

It was created by a core Asterisk developer frustrated by the quality of the Asterisk code base, but is not a fork; it was written from scratch.

FreeSWITCH is used as the core of the Barracuda CudaTel PBX appliance.

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Can you please explain the difference between PBX and soft switch in less technical terms?

Asterisk is an open source PBX and FreeSWITCH is an open source soft switch. Source: http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 Can you please explain the difference between PBX and soft switch in less technical terms Examples illustrating the…
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FreeSWITCH & OpenSIPS - How do I avoid duplicating extensions in multiple FreeSWITCH servers?

I want to use FreeSWITCH instead of Asterisk because of it's performance compared to Asterisk. I know that FreeSWITCH can be a full PBX or just run parts (modules) to do only the things I want it to.. But I am not sure where OpenSIPS fits into the…
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Using an extension to block a caller

I have a couple of SIP phones and use callcentric. I get a lot of junk calls. I'd like to implement the following feature and would like some suggestions on how to do this: Once I get a junk call, I typically hang up. I want to dial some number…
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asterisk/freeswitch in nat/no-nat setup

my current setup - i use bunch of sip hard-phones around few offices. all devices have two sip accounts configured - one on internal sip proxy [for calls between the branches], another - at 3rd party voip providers [ since it's in different…
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How to stop freeswitch by the command line?

freeswitch has it's own CLI and it is possible to shut it down with shutdown command issued within this CLI. But is it possible to shut it down bu separate command, for example, by shell script?
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Cannot connect softphone as a FreeSwitch Extension

Having successfully configured and maintained few Asterisk based installations, I have now been provided a task to configure FreeSwitch SIP server. ISO downloaded from http://wiki.fusionpbx.com/index.php?title=CentOS_ISO Configuration CentOS 5.4…
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Best practices for transcoding OPUS/G711 using freeswitch

Can someone share their experience of transcoding OPUS/G711 ans vice versa using Freeswitch? I am getting call quality issues even if there is a single call on the server. I am getting crackling noise and the end of the words. SIP Clients HAVE to…
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Nagios plugin to monitor FreeSWITCH

I am trying to configure Nagios to monitor FreeSWITCH as mentioned at https://github.com/kjhosein/nagios-freeswitch-plugin . I have downloaded the script from git and followed listed steps. On remote (NRPE) server I have added below line in nrpe.cfg…
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FusionPBX: SIP/2.0 405 Method Not Allowed, SIP Phones not registering

I followed below steps to install FUsionPBX/Freeswitch. Got to the point where phones are registering with SIP extension created. But when I changed the default gateway of the freewsitch box and restarted it, phones are no langer registering and…
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How to improve call quality freeswitch?

Currently I have a system that makes use of FreeSWITCH for outbound calls via SIP External with flowroute and works well, but some users complain about the quality of the call. The system is running the call using a lua script, in which you create…
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How can I record a call transfer with freeSwitch?

I am using freeSwitch to terminate calls that originate on the local network from an IVR system. I have it working with several different voip terminators, and I can record sessions successfully, except when the call gets transferred. When I do a…
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Call issue with Freeswitch

I am testing the following with Freeswitch and different devices (nokia n900, nokia e60, ekiga) and have similar results between them. On the Freeswitch server (1.0.4 in multi-tenant mode) I have several user profiles for a domain, e.g. 1000, 1001…
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FreeSWITCH Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6

I'm currently trying to understand how I can enable my freeSWITCH to talk both IPv6 as well as IPv4. Currently, I thought it was going to be easiest to first create a set-up which works on IPv4 and then switch the IPv4 address for an IPv6…
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Freeswitch/FusionPBX trying to list all inbound routes/destinations and their associated actions

I mainly work with Asterisk/FreePBX but just recently started working with Freeswitch on a large scale so forgive me as I'm only now starting to explore a lot of the interface. Issue: User wants to be able to see all inbound routes and associated…
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Using Asterisk as a gateway to Provider

I have 2 sip servers on different LANs. Freeswitch and another is Asterisk. Asterisk sits on a VPN with a provider and who has provided DIDs. All users register on Freeswitch. How can I route calls to the provider through Asterisk and back, I tried…
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