Hi all,

I will be doing a talk about the SureVoIP API on Thursday 20th March at Aberdeen TechMeetup:

Aberdeen TechMeetup: SureVoIP API

14th Mar 2013 by bruce

Gavin Henry@ghenry
Gavin will take you through the lifecycle of the SureVoIP API including:
* Why it was needed; internal use, partners and customers
* The technologies chosen
* Parts outsourced and released under an Open Source license
* Current uses and “Apps”
* Future

Hi all,

Very excited that this is moving forward now but we have just had a demo of our first iPhone app for SureVoIP (Android coming) which has been developed in partnership with the RGU dePICT program. We received some funding from the EU which we match and so far has been a great experience!

We’ve also commissioned some Browser plugins using crossrider which means using these and the SureVoIP API:

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Safari

you will be able to click any telephone number on a web page and it will call your phone first then that number and connect you. You can also right-click it to send a SMS/text or a fax (by uploading a PDF).

I’d recommend working with your local University and Crossrider :-)

More soon,

Gavin.

Did you know we have at least 6 companies doing really clever things right now using the SureVoIP Cloud VoIP API?

Uses include:

1. Telephone call generation for click to call via a customers website
2. We send out VoIP handset status events (actually SIP Presence events from our hosted VoIP platform exposed via JSON) which one company uses to update a webpage to show call centre agents availability
3. CRM integration for call popups and call records using a well known CRM platform.  This uses our core push events called WebHooks which sends call progress status when someone calls a SureVoIP inbound number (ringing, answered, onhold,  hangup)
4. Customer portal and .NET wrapper (which will be made open source on our github repo)
5. SMS notifications in a well known hotel chain
6. SMS alerts to contact the on call I.T. support via an internal portal

All cool stuff and exactly the kind of thing we like to see! Once we have released the new SureVoIP Developer portal you can see all these (once we get permission) with code examples, in the App gallery.

So why are they using SureVoIP? We have an amazing developer API that is fast, connected directly into the core UK telephone network (unlike other non-communication providers that just bolt one on to an existing provider) and access to it comes with every SureVoIP Product and Service.

We are working hard adding and completing more features, exposing more of our hosted VoIP features and improving the API documentation, as well as working with a local University to develop our first mobile App (Apple iOS6 then Android).

Thanks.

Well, after what seems ages and ages we’ve finally got our Raspberry Pi:

There’s already been some cool posts about putting VoIP software on to it. We’re going to do some tests and see what cool things we can do with it and the SureVoIP API

Will keep you posted. I really don’t know what took so long for ours to arrive when most others got theirs in June!