The growth of RC (Recombinant Communications) is predicated largely on efforts by various businesses to make Telco APIs easily accessible to and usable by large numbers of developers. To that end, six year old API aggregator and publishing company Apigee has developed a “console” designed to make it easier for third-parties to understand and deploy integrate Twilio’s cloud-based call-processing, SMS and voice processing capabilities.
Here’s a brief video that illustrates what Apigee provides:
In brief, it supports developers’ efforts by making it easier to understand what an API is capable of supporting and then to develop and test applications or services that use that API. In addition to Twilio, Apigee has built consoles to for the APIs from a number of popular Web service providers, including Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn, PayPal, SimpleGeo and SoundCloud.
The companies that facilitate low-latency, highly-scalable access to popular Web services have a promising future. Because so much activity is initiated from mobile phones – both smartphones and browser-equipped feature phones – adding telephony functions is a natural. Successfully integrating telephony functions into popular mobile applications will rely on sharing reliable (and reusable) code, as well end-to-end testing of the finished products. Apigee’s efforts support both of those objectives and, according to TechCrunch’s CrunchBase, it has been rewarded with over $50 million in venture capital during its 6 year’s of existence.
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