Web 2.0 / Application Mash-Up Solutions
The differentiation between voice and data networks is becoming blurrier and blurrier every year. Blend this fact with the potential of applications built by IT developers for voice networks, and the possibilities are endless. The promise of leveraging a huge ecosystem of developers to build voice centric applications is on the edge of becoming reality. Google and Microsoft are just two examples of behemoth companies testing the waters, poised to enter the market and unleash a slew of innovative and lucrative applications. All this potential is based on the promise that IT developers will be able to quickly understand and build new applications enabled by concealing extremely complex voice network functions behind by a highly abstracted and easily consumable web services API. This type of network interface not only insulates the application from needing to know much if anything about the network in which it operates, but it also insulates the application developer. These voice centric applications which once had a high barrier to- entry, will in the very near future become virtually barrier free allowing many different types of developers from many different backgrounds to offer their services and applications.
THE SOLUTION:
APPLICATION SESSION CONTROLLER – WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGY
AppTrigger’s ASC embraces the potential of enabling the IT development community to build applications for voice networks first realized by the Parlay Gateway, but extends this potential by broadening the scope of applications that can be developed. The ASC offers support to a broad range of applications with varying network resource requirements. All this capability is presented behind a highly abstracted Web Services interface which is easily comprehendible by the IT development community. This feature rich API offers atomic capabilities like presence, call transfer, and conferencing, thereby reducing the complexity of the service logic required to be implemented by the application. In addition to the benefits created by the ASC for network abstraction, the ASC also greatly simplifies the network architecture by combining all the network elements required by applications to connect to a network into a single network element.
