Asterisk has a wealth of features to help you customize your PBX to fill very
specific business needs. This short cookbook offers recipes for tackling
dialplan fundamentals, making and controlling calls, and monitoring channels in
your PBX environment. Each recipe includes a simple code solution you can put to
work immediately, along with a detailed discussion that offers insight into why
and how the recipe works.
This book focuses on Asterisk 1.8, although many of the conventions and
information presented are version-agnostic. These recipes include solutions to
help you:
* Authenticate callers before moving on in your dialplan
* Redirect calls received by your auto-attendant