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Ben Klang
Principal/Technology Strategist
Mojo Lingo
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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 Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
Equity
IT managers, CIOs, Fastest Way to Develop Voice Apps, Period.
Business Process Analysts
5. 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 Enrich existing infrastructure with new, game-changing
operators services
Investment banking, venture Market-ready Apps in weeks or days, not months
capital, private equity
IT managers, CIOs and Business TDD, Agile, bulletproof deployments with Capistrano,
Process Analysts eminently readable code
6. Adhearsion Applied
Call center workflow optimization and integration
Sales force automation
Conferencing applications
Translation services
IVR
Polling
Robo-calling
8. 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)
9. 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
11. Adhearsion Timeline: Been and Going
• 2006 - First code written • Adhearsion LLC
by Jay Phillips, visionary acquired by Voxeo, • Adhearsion
of framework Foundation
• Voxeo forms Voxeo
• 2007 – First public Labs, Tropo (non-profit)
release formed
• Ben Klang takes
over as project
• Jason Goecke joins • ANNOUNCEMENT
lead
• Adhearsion goes on 09-15-11
• Adhearsion
World Tour • AdhearsionConf
reaches version 1.0
10-8-11
• First
AdhearsionConf
12. 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
Now I’ve introduced myself, who are you? Developers? (languages?) Sysadmins? (operating systems?)\n
Predictable progress and safer deployments thanks to Ruby best practices like TDD, Capistrano, Agile; eminently readable code\nTell stories about our successes with startups and MVP\n
Ensuring you speak everyone’s language.\n
Note that Rayo is part of Prism 11, released today. What Infrastructure: Not only is the deployment “in the cloud” but both platforms are hosted applications. No need for sysadmins or server management at all.\n
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Goal: establish the maturity and activity of the project. This is a safe place for Enterprise to invest time/money. Mention DoD deployments and telco carriers running Ahn. MIT license allows for redistribution without source code.\n