Cloudvox Boosts Platform With New Options
Cloudvox, which was recently acquired by Ifbyphone, today announced the first fruits of their combined platform: a flat pay-as-you-go rate of 3 cents per minute, phone numbers from around the world, and a comprehensive conference call application programming interface for all Cloudvox users.
“We’re all about eliminating barriers to creating new phone applications. Now every user can access all Cloudvox capabilities, whether it’s for a simple two-line script or a sophisticated portable application,” said Cloudvox co-founder Troy Davis. “Cloudvox uniquely supports standard Asterisk-compliant apps, allowing customers to change service providers or use their own infrastructure without getting locked in.”
Building on the resources of Ifbyphone, developers can now write a single application that can be called by a majority of the world's industrialized population. Cloudvox customers can purchase local phone numbers around the world, dramatically increasing both the number of people who can call and the market for their applications.
Cloudvox is reaching out to entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, Australia, and more than 25 other countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. Using HTTP and JSON, PHP, Ruby (Adhearsion), Perl, Java (Asterisk-Java), and other open-source languages and frameworks, developers can write and operate open phone services for their local markets and the world.
“Worldwide access is a horizontal feature that overlays on existing apps,” said Irv Shapiro, Ifbyphone CEO. “It provides service expansion and geographic benefits to key Cloudvox customers, including European entrepreneurs and U.S. tech companies selling to their European customers.”
Regardless of location, phone calls demand interactivity, and now all applications on Cloudvox can initiate and control multiparty conference calls. Developers can use conferences as a building block to create more compelling services. Via an application programming interface, applications can route callers into conferences, remove specific participants, and perform sophisticated actions like playing MP3 audio files into conferences and recording the conversations.
"We've seen strong interest from companies in social networking, business process automation, and fleet tracking. When added to Cloudvox's open-standard phone call API, this simple pricing, global footprint, and API-based conference calling remove major obstacles to building sustainable services," Davis added,