adhearsion for devs - cloudcomm 2011
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Ben KlangPrincipal/Technology StrategistMojo Lingo
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Who is Ben Klang?
• Ben Klang is the leader of the Adhearsion project since 2010.
• Has worked with telephony and VoIP since 2002, then at a small startup in his father-in-law’s basement.
• 15+ years of deep technical experience, including systems architecture, network management, scalability and load testing, voice application design.
• Believes in agile, telecommuting, distance collaboration and free time.
What is Adhearsion?
• Voice Application Development Framework
• Adhesion you can hear – glueing the voice layer to the rest of the world.
• Open Source
• Ruby language – easily integrates with Rails, but not dependent
• Platform agnostic – runs anywhere Ruby or Java does.
• Runs small, scales to … (announcement coming Thursday)
• Cloud-Ready
• Real-time
What makes Adhearsion so cool?
Audience Type Benefits
Application Provider Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
System integrators, VARS Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
Mobile, fixed & IP-based operators Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity
Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
IT managers, CIOs,Business Process Analysts
Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
What really makes Adhearsion so cool?
Audience Type Benefits
Application Provider Easily package apps for redistribution
System integrators, VARS Strong (and growing) ecosystem of Ruby developers (Thanks, Rails!)
Mobile, fixed & IP-based operators
Enrich existing infrastructure with new, game-changing services
Investment banking, venture capital, private equity
Market-ready Apps in weeks or days, not months
IT managers, CIOs and Business Process Analysts
TDD, Agile, bulletproof deployments with Capistrano, eminently readable code
Adhearsion Applied
Call center workflow optimization and integration
Sales force automation
Conferencing applications
Translation services
IVR
Polling
Robo-calling
Adhearsion Architecture: How Does It Work?
Adhearsion on Asterisk
• 100% Open Source stack
• Arguably lowest TCO with no per-port licensing
• Most common Adhearsion platform today – thousands of apps in production
• Asterisk is everywhere – embedded products to most Linux distributions
• No TTS or ASR included, but may be licensed separately
• Adhearsion easily co-exists with FreePBX (Elastix, PBX-in-a-Flash, Trixbox, AsteriskNOW, others)
Adhearsion on Tropo
• Fully Cloud-based service – no servers to maintain
• Built-in, high-quality ASR and TTS in 24 languages (!!)
• Nothing to license; just pay per-minute usage
• Free for developers – no cost until app is in production
• Easiest, Cheapest way to prototype a new idea quickly
Telephony DSL (Domain Specific Language)
Adhearsion Timeline: Been and Going
• Jason Goecke joins
• Adhearsion goes on World Tour
• Adhearsion LLC acquired by Voxeo,
• Voxeo forms Voxeo Labs, Tropo
• Ben Klang takes over as project lead
• Adhearsion reaches version 1.0
• First AdhearsionConf
• Adhearsion Foundation (non-profit) formed
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• 2006 - First code written by Jay Phillips, visionary
of framework
• 2007 – First public release
• ANNOUNCEMENT 09-15-11
• AdhearsionConf 10-8-11
Adhearsion: By the Numbers
15,889 lines of code
14,393 Downloads To Date (since 2009)
>82% unit test code coverage
7 Contributing Countries
5 years of active development
$0 licensing costs
Adhearsion Timeline: Cumulative Downloads
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