Monday, January 21, 2008

LOTS = A LAMP for Voice 2.0?

If LAMP is the fundamental building block of Web 2.0, then what is the fundamental building block for Voice 2.0? I firmly believe that building block is LOTS (Linux+OpenSER+sip Tunks+STUN).

Most folks who are doing voice on the net are quite close to a LOTS based architecture and they probably don't realize the pure generality of how they arrived at it and how much time it took. I believe today getting LOTS to work is still a *LOT* harder than getting LAMP to work for an internet website. Just like there are a lot of ways apart from LAMP to build a website, but if you use LAMP, you can do it in half an hour and find hundreds of other people who will support you, there are a dozen different ways of doing voice on the internete. It just happens that it seems a lot easier to work with LOTS. So how does a LOTS based architecture work for voice and what are all the components involved? How simple is it to put it together? How much time does it take - half an hour? I will provide some more details on that in this blog...

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