For those of us who have been using Ribbit’s various Web-based call processing and voice processing services on an a la carte basis, this week brings major news about the business unit’s acceptance into the incumbent telco’s mainstream.
BT
2010: Taking Recombinant Communications “Over The Top”
“Over the top” (OTT) is gaining momentum as the “term of art” for value-added Voice over IP (VoIP) transport networks. In rapid succession we’ve seen Avaya contemplating a relationship with Skype, Telefonica’s European wireless subsidiary 02 purchase JaJah and most recently Mark Plakias at Orange pointed me to a “Flash-to-VoIP” service, calling it an “OTT cocktail of Flash and Jingle-to-SIP gateway technology + carrier.”
Cisco, BT Expand IP-Telephony Apps in the Cloud
As we progress into the second decade of the new millennium, we expect to see more partnerships that resemble BT’s agreement with Cisco to embed the resources that support rich phone apps into the telephony cloud. As noted here BT… Read More ›