AsterBlog – VoIP, Asterisk and Networking Discussion

The Asterisk PBX guide is the new Asterisk Book currently being sold by Amazon in the states. After going through most of the book in detail Ive finally got around to reviewing it. Comments as follows ::

• The book starts of with an introduction into Asterisk 1.4 including a complete step buy step guide on how to configure Asterisk from the ground up .. excellent for newbies
• If anybody has taken the Asterisk Bootcamp course, this book will seem particularly familiar at first glance …. however, its quite detailed in parts and even for the experienced Asterisk user will answer some of those ” ahh thats what its for ” questions.
• For Asterisk Newbies the book turns out a bit stronger than the O’Reily book ( although the 2nd edition of this is coming out soon )
• The physical quality of the book (paper) is quite poor and the 370 pages probably an actual 250 due to the excessive large font type used. There are also a number of mistakes and grammatical errors.

Overall for the beginner this is probably the best book on the market at present explaining most of the core applications that Asterisk is capable of. However, for experienced asterisk users wait for the “Asterisk Cookbook”