Cloudvox launch announcement

Cloudvox Phone API Platform Launches: Telephony in the Cloud

Cloudvox Phone API Platform Launches: "Telephony in the Cloud"

New Cloudvox service lets Web developers manipulate phone calls like Web 
pages -- from their own software, over the Internet, in minutes.


Cloudvox launched today, bringing unprecedented phone call flexibility to 
entrepreneurs and technologists. Any Web developer can place, receive, and 
control phone calls from their own application or Web site, with no new 
infrastructure.

Over the Internet, Cloudvox makes available "phone building blocks" like 
collecting digits, placing calls, speaking phrases, and starting conferences. 
Developers can mix and match these components to create incredibly customized 
phone call services.

"This is the 'long tail' of phone-based services," said Troy Davis, CEO of 
Seven Scale. "With minimal technical expertise and no capital, innovators can 
integrate phone calls into their products and services."

Open-source programming libraries are available for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, 
Java, Python, C#, and other languages. All are free and based on open 
standards like Asterisk, AGI, HTTP, and SIP.

As a hosted "cloud computing" platform, users can sign up at 
http://cloudvox.com/ and be live in minutes. Phone apps can operate for 
pennies per day.

"Interest in using open source Asterisk in the cloud has been 
percolating--it's another important way for businesses to take advantage of 
many of the benefits that Asterisk has to offer," said Mark Spencer, CTO and 
founder of Digium, creator of the Asterisk telephony platform.

"By basing its service on industry-standard elements, Cloudvox makes it easy 
for companies to get up and running with customized voice services," Spencer 
added.

Cloudvox is used today for groupware collaboration, alerting and 
notifications, voice-based social media, scheduling, search marketing, and 
business process management (BPM) data collection.

"In an era of dynamic Web apps, phone infrastructure has been stuck in the 
last century: capital-intensive, hard to automate, and even harder to scale. 
With Cloudvox, if you can sketch it, you can build it," Davis said.

ABOUT SEVEN SCALE
Seven Scale (http://sevenscale.com/) created and operates Cloudvox 
(http://cloudvox.com/). Cloudvox lets developers control telephone calls 
from any software, without new infrastructure -- the most practical, stable, 
open environment for API-driven phone calls. Catch us on Twitter: 
http://twitter.com/cloudvox