Thomas Howe

One big difference between the Web world and the telecom world are standards. I don’t mean that they use different standards (although they do), they have a different approach the standards entirely.  Other than the two worlds of standards represented by the Telco and Web world, there’s a third sort of standard - an implementation standard.   A “this is how we tend to do this sort of stuff” standard.  For instance, there’s really no one PSTN standard - it’s just how we have put together many other standards to make something that works.  We need to establish a standard for Telco Mashups; a set of conventions as to how we tend to write these applications.  Since I’ve been at this, I’ve noticed a standard pattern I’ll call the Web Integrated Telco Architecture - WITA.   From where I sit, the an application written to the WITA standard is more scalable, more reliable and easier to write than anything else I have seen put forward for telephony enabled services. As I put together my telco mashup applications, and see companies like Gaboogie and Twitter do the same, I see that we all use approximately the same approach. If we can standardize it, give it a name, we can build the community quicker.