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

[praveen kumar]

I did lot of research on this subject.

- Call recordings etc. will have latency and it will be not
manageable. You call records should first be stored internally and
then written out to S3 block. S3 block can be anywhere - west or east
and you will notice call degradation.

- Voicemail is ok on S3

- EC2 does not have any ETA and they really do not concentrate much on
jitter and latency.

- The major bottleneck is Bandwidth in and out. If you are using G711
- you will start burning yourself. If you have low volume - there is
no point of using cloud.

- Most of the APIs I have seen are jsut wrappers on Asteirsk AGI.
Nothing else. Check out http://www.invox.com if you are seeking to
build IVR components - just drag and drop. Click and click - your IVR
is ready. 40-50 voice mashups out of box. Visual designer. Supports 40
countries. Has inbuilt support for speech recognition, text to speech
etc.

- G729 may have transcoding issues on cloud. Also, if you are using
Speech recognition - G729 is no no.

My 2 cents - cloud is not yet ready as they may have latency not
covered in their SLA and they charge bandwidth in/out.


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Pascal Deschenes
<pascal.deschenes at nuecho.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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