Cloud overview

Build simple, powerful apps for businesses of all sizes.

Your application, built using high-level APIs, and hosted on your own server, controls the Aculab Cloud resources that handle your voice calls, SMS and fax communications, and provide multi-lingual text-to-speech and speech recognition. There’s no need for you to have specialist telephony equipment, Aculab Cloud takes care of the telephony for you.

How do I start?

Sign up for your free developer account and you can:

Receive inbound calls free of charge
Make outbound SIP calls free of charge

And get access to all our documentation, including;

Quick start guides
All APIs, available in Java, Python, PHP and .Net
Sample applications and code bites
And acccess to our expert support team

Once you have satisfied yourself it does what you need, you can upgrade to a Production account where you can buy inbound telephone numbers and make outbound telephone calls, with attractive pay as you go pricing.

It’s all managed by you through an easy-to-use console. Learn more about it here.

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Inbound calls

You set up an Inbound Service on a telephone number or SIP address to run one of your applications when it receives an inbound call.

Developer accounts include use of a range of dedicated test telephone numbers.

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Outbound Calls

You set up an Outbound Service to point to one of your applications. You then tell Aculab Cloud when you want to make a call via a simple web service.

Once you have upgraded to a Production account you can make outbound calls using Aculab Cloud's own telephony provider or use your own choice of provider.

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High-level APIs

You can write telephony applications using either the REST API or UAS API in one of a number of high-level programming languages including C#, python, PHP, java.

There are lots of code examples and application samples to help you get started.

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REST API

You can build voice, fax and messaging REST applications that run in your own web server using our REST API. This has several language wrappers that are easy to use and support many advanced features.

Your Outbound and Inbound Services point to the URL of the First Page of your application.

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User Application Server (UAS) API

You download an application server that will host your voice and fax applications and maintain connection to Aculab Cloud.

Your Outbound and Inbound Services start instances of your applications in your UAS as required.

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