About the Authors

Anthony Minessale II is the primary author and founding member of the FreeSWITCH Open Source Soft-Switch. Anthony has spent around 20 years working with open source software. In 2001, Anthony spent a great deal of time contributing code to the Asterisk PBX and has authored numerous features and fixes to that project. In 2005, Anthony started coding a new idea for an open source voice application. The FreeSWITCH project was officially open to the public on January 1 2006. In the years that followed, Anthony has been actively maintaining and leading the software development of the FreeSWITCH project. Anthony also founded the ClueCon Technology Conference in 2005, and he continues to oversee the production of this annual event.

Anthony has been the author of several FreeSWITCH books, including FreeSWITCH 1.0.6, FreeSWITCH 1.2, FreeSWITCH Cookbook, and FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook.

I'd like to thank my wife Jill and my kids, Eric and Abbi, who were in grade school when this project started and are now grown up. I'd also like to thank everyone who took the time to try FreeSWITCH and submit feedback. I finally thank my coauthor Giovanni Maruzzelli for working on this book.

Giovanni Maruzzelli (<gmaruzz@OpenTelecom.IT>) is heavily engaged with FreeSWITCH. In it, he wrote a couple of endpoint modules, and he is specialized in industrial grade deployments and solutions. He's the curator and coauthor of FreeSWITCH 1.6 Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2015).

He's a consultant in the telecommunications sector, developing software and conducting training courses for FreeSWITCH, SIP, WebRTC, Kamailio, and OpenSIPS.

As an Internet technology pioneer, he was the cofounder of Italia Online in 1996, which was the most popular Italian portal and consumer ISP. Also, he was the architect of its Internet technologies (www.italiaonline.it). Back then, Giovanni was the supervisor of Internet operations and the architect of the first engine for paid access to www.ilsole24ore.com, the most-read financial newspaper in Italy, and its databases (migrated from the mainframe). After that, he was the CEO of the venture capital-funded company Matrice, developing telemail unified messaging and multiple-language phone access to e-mail (text to speech). He was also the CTO of the incubator-funded company Open4, an open source managed applications provider. For 2 years, Giovanni worked in Serbia as an Internet and telecommunications investment expert for IFC, an arm of the World Bank.

Since 2005, he has been based in Italy, and he serves ICT and telecommunication companies worldwide.

I'd like to thank all people who made writing this book a challenging journey for me, all who helped, all who supported, all who gave me obstacles to overcome. This book has been brought to you by the knowledge that was socially cumulated by humans through the centuries, let's praise them. I finally want to thank my coauthor Anthony Minessale II for being so patient and "Always See Everything."