VoIP Cookbook: PREFACE

This book is aimed to provide a practical knowledge to setup a community based telephone network based over the Internet Infrastructure A.K.A. Internet Telephone or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Many real world example on equipment and application software setup and installations are provided.

We would like to thank many friends at http://www.asterisk.org, http://www.opensips.org, http://www.voiprakyat.or.id, http://www.e164.org as well as many forum and mailing lists without whom it would be impossible for us to gain a lot of knowledge and ideas.

I would like to thank many of our comrades that managed to keep their spirit high in making a significant change in Indonesian telecommunication area. Some of them are Sumaryo, Donny BU, Basuki Suhardiman, Hariyanto Pribadi, M. Ichsan, Heru Nugroho, Michael Sunggiardi, and Judi Prasetyo; as well as many friends on the mailing lists.

Onno W. Purbo would like to thank the International Development Research Center (IDRC) http://www.idrc.ca to support his earlier work on VoIP. Especially to ICT4D group, specially, Richard Fuchs, Renald Lafond, Graham Todd, Josh Skinner, Steve Song, Nancy Smyth, Heloise Emdon, Mireille Leroux and Frank Tulus.

We would like to thank Information Society Innovation Fund – ISIF http://www.isif.asia, especially Sylvia Cadena and her team for supporting us in documenting our knowledge on community based Internet Telephony.

We hope this book will enable more community based telecommunication and telephone providers over the regional Internet. Furthermore, we hope it will enable a low cost access to telecommunication in the region.

Jakarta, February 2010 The Authors

See Also

• VoIP Cookbook: Building your own Telecommunication Infrastructure