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Rating: 3 Summary: Detailed Help for Asterisk Setup
Comment This asterisk title is not for the faint hearted, assuming you have a working knowledge of linux and not afraid to jump in to some command line configuration. That said, there is some great explanation for basic set up to advanced features and to hook up to various VoIP providers.

From my perspective I was hoping for more details such as configuring time conditions for holidays and things of that nature, so I felt the book stopped before it covered topics I wanted. For what it does to, it does it well with detailed examples and descriptions as to why things work they do.

Don't look for this title to be a novice walk through guide, but if you want some good reference for setting up your own small to large business installation having this book on hand is a good idea.

Rating: 4 Summary: Great, but glitchy
Comment I'm enjoying the book and learning a lot from it, but this newest edition has some editing problems, such as typos:

Page 99: "providers may insteadSession Initiation Protocol" - and I don't know enough about the subject yet to figure out what they meant to say

and logical errors:

Page 71: "if you want to build an IP-only configuration, you can skip to the section on configuring SIP." - but if you do, expect to be coming back to this page because you'll have skipped over some important stuff and will have no idea what's going on

But these are comparatively minor problems with an otherwise great book.

Rating: 5 Summary: Good overview
Comment I was looking to this book to gain an overview of Asterisk. As is usually the case with O' Reilly books, this one did not disappoint. I would definitely recommend this to anybody who is starting to explore Asterisk.

Additionally, there are references and details useful for continuing your understanding of this wonderful platform. There is a lot of information that can get you started with a hands-on Asterisk experience.

Rating: 4 Summary: Very good book
Comment This is a very good book well suitable to even beginners. contents are explained very well. I made my asterisk system work by referring this book.

Rating: 1 Summary: Dated. Rambling.
Comment The asterisk software has progressed substantially, but worse, the organization of what's important and what's not makes this book hold the distinct honor of being in the top five worst books by O'Reilly Press.