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This is awesome news, and is really going to enable some powerful stuff (and it'll be cheap! SIP/VoIP is far cheaper than using your minutes on a traditional ph
by jxf 14y ago
This is awesome news, and is really going to enable some powerful stuff (and it'll be cheap! SIP/VoIP is far cheaper than using your minutes on a traditional phone plan). For folks who haven't worked with Twilio before, one of the slightly obnoxious parts is TwiML, their proprietary markup language that describes how to make, route, and respond to telephony events. It's not difficult to work with, but it's nonportable and irrelevant if you're not using Twilio.
But now, by exposing the underlying SIP streams, Twilio is opening the doors to a broader range of applications (commercial PBXs, enterprisey telephony folks, etc.). Unfortunately, it looks like you still have to use TwiML to get the job done, but all the custom stuff can be done on your side instead of having to port that to TwiML.
- pla3rhat3r 14y agoYou're right. You still have to use a bit of TwiML to get the interop working but man does it broaden the scope of what can be done. I can't wait to see what people do with this.
- RobSpectre 14y agoReally hope you'll both let us know what you build. Share your enthusiasm - I think a much broader range of powerful business apps are going to get made with this service.
- saurik 14y agoIt sounds like what you want is just a normal VoIP provider, no? What is Twilio offering you if you aren't using their programming environment?