Frequently Asked Questions - General Ribbit Questions
You do not need any infrastructure to support any of Ribbit’s services. However, you will need to host your own application, which may require some infrastructure based on how you choose to host it. If you choose to self-host the application, then it will require the purchase of hosted facilities, equipment, bandwidth and other infrastructure elements. An alternative is to host the application in a cloud-based platform and pay for usage only, negating the need for investment in any infrastructure.
Ribbit does not require any upfront capital investment to use. Developers are charged on a usage basis only, so you only pay for what you use, and you can use as much or as little of the platform’s services as you need.
No, Ribbit is a fully hosted SaaS (software as a service) platform, and hosts all the infrastructure and connectivity needed to enable the services provided. Ribbit is accessible via the RESTful API. All you need is an Internet connection to use the Ribbit platform and services. All Ribbit’s services are modular, meaning that a developer can choose to use one or many of these services in combination as needed to augment their existing applications, or create new applications altogether.
Ribbit is a software as a service provider that offers programmable communications services such as calling, messaging, voice-to-text transcriptions, interactive voice response (IVR) and many other capabilities, all exposed through a RESTful API and supporting SDKs built on top of this API. Developers can easily incorporate any of these services into their applications, creating an application mash-up that includes both synchronous and asynchronous communications without investing in any equipment or infrastructure. As Ribbit adds services and capabilities, incorporating them becomes as easy as adding the appropriate API calls into your application. It’s that easy.
Set the applications call back notification url. (suggest using Kermit to do this by updating the application.) Once you do this, notifications are posted to the url you set.
Currently the answer to your question is no. All sip devices must be directly registered with Ribbit.
There may be other offerings if the future, or you may want to speak with the Ribbit Business Development Group (sales@ribbit.com) if you are working on something you would like to see productized with RIbbit.
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