[asterisk-biz] The newest buzz word - cloud computing

[Pascal Deschenes]

Mike,

Cloud computing is definitely having an impact on Asterisk (or at least, 
how it is being used) right now.
A few company are currently offering cloud services leveraging the 
asterisk platform. The basic idea of
cloud services/computing is to

abstract details "[...]from the users who no longer have need of, 
expertise in, or control over the technology
infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them." (wikipedia)

Hence, you have a whole new sort of "Everything-As-A-Service" offering, 
where telephony based are
among those service offering, leverage the Asterisk platform in some 
cases and abstracting the telephony
infrastructure itself so that you, as a user, don't have to worry about 
such details.

For instance, twilio.com, adhearsion.com, and tropo.com are offering web 
api to provide access to
a telephony platform. Asterisk for the former two and Voxeo for the 
latter. Cloudvox is not only offering
a web api (Adhearsion's) but also a complete remote access to the 
Asterisk platform through AMI and
FastAGI with some other peripheral services to support their offering. 
Callfire.com, to my knowledge,
is offering XML base API to manage callcenter agents and outbound 
campaigns. We (nuecho.com) are
offering a testing platform for IVR applications as a self-service in 
the cloud.

In short, yes, cloud telephony is here and you might want to check it 
out while building your new IVR
service!

Cheers

Pascal


On 10-02-01 11:08 PM, asterisk-biz-request at lists.digium.com wrote:
> The newest buzz word - cloud computing

> good evening (EST),
>
> Cloud computing, a really cool sounding buzz word.
>
> Was wondering if anyone on the list can elaborate on how this technology
> will impact Asterisk, specifically how Asterisk would be deployed using this
> technology.  (Or should it be be deployed in the cloud).
>
> We are in the process of building an information line (IVR) which needs full
> redundancy/fail-over will the cloud provide that?
>
> -Mike
>