Before I started to use this book I had some experience with Asterisk at home (Now trixbox).
It might be true as one of the other revies mentiones that you should have some Asterisk experience before using the book as trobleshooting, etc is not to well covered.
One other topic buyers should know is that this book does not cover complex or automated distros like Asterisk at home or Trixbox.
On the oyher hand this book gives an outstanding and quite exelent basic description of how a manually configured Asterfisk server work and how to configure.
I could use Asterisk before I red this book, but I did not understand it. After this book I think I understand Asterisk, in such a way that I can do my own ip telephony server design, and make things work as I want them to.
The Asterisk wariant I used to test out most things covered in the book were Astlinux. It is a very good Asterisk/Linux distro and I will recoment to use it together with the book.
To start with, I think this book were a bit hard to get started with, but now to day, I which there would be a follow up, with more advanced topics, starting where this book ended.
For such a book there will allways be things that could have been done even bether, but all in all, if I should pick out a few of the best Linux related books I have red the latest ten years, this book would be one of them.
For me this book has been a cornerstone and a fundament for understanding the Asterisk server.
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