Preface
In 1999, the first shot of the telephony revolution was fired when the Asterisk PBX was released to the world. In the ensuing decade, open source telephony took the world by storm, lead by Asterisk and a host of other software packages such as OpenSER and YATE.
In 2006, an Asterisk developer named Anthony Minessale announced an ambitious project: a new telephony software engine, built from the ground up. Some thought this was crazy considering the wild success of the Asterisk platform. However, Anthony's vision was to create a telephony platform unlike any in existence—open source or proprietary. In May 2008, this new project reached a critical milestone with the release of FreeSWITCH 1.0.0.
Now that FreeSWITCH has been available for several ...
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