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These phone systems in the cloud are truly awesome. I wonder what kind of telecom hardware they are running on....
by Tawheed 17y ago
These phone systems in the cloud are truly awesome. I wonder what kind of telecom hardware they are running on....
- wallflower 17y agoI'd say it's highly likely they are using open-source Asterisk http://www.asterisk.org/ http://www.asterisk.org/
- nico 17y agoA better alternative to Asterisk: FreeSWITCH - www.freeswitch.org
- Shooter 17y agoWe're slowly migrating most of our PBX/IVR apps from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH. I agree FreeSWITCH is higher quality code, but unfortunately there is a much smaller developer/support/hardware ecosystem with FreeSWITCH right now.
- abalashov 17y ago"Better" is very relative, as the sibling poster rightly points out.
- abalashov 17y agoThey use some Asterisk. There is also a significant (and well-known) commercial component proprietary to the enhanced voice application services industry, although there are various reasons for which I cannot disclose what it is.
- azsromej 17y agoThey run on Amazon EC2 with instances that have Asterisk; Digium is one provider of hardware for these situations but I don't know how that's incorporated into their architecture
- emcooke 17y agoWe provided an brief overview of how Twilio uses AWS here http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/twilio-voice-applications-with-amazon-aws-s3-and-ec2-presentation http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/twilio-voice-applications-w...