Design and Implementation of Generic VoIP Exchange Using Functional Programming

Abstract

This thesis deals with the design and implementation of generic exchange. As an implementation language was selected Erlang mainly because of its positive features with respect to a telephony software. Thesis also talks about declarative programming, Erlang language, its particular properties, advantages and disadvantages. The resulting software is called the Generic Exchange and its funcionallity is demonstrated on a few simple examples. In the end of the thesis are summarized the results and Generic Exchange design is compared with the design of Asterisk exchange