ComponentSource partners with Glorsoft

Velocity toolkit for building feature-rich telephony and speech solutions now available from ComponentSource.

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The Glorsoft Velocity Device Monitor awaiting input.

Velocity is a rapid application development toolkit that enables Microsoft .NET developers to create feature-rich telephony and speech solutions. Velocity eliminates the need to learn low level telephony API’s and protocols. The high-level Velocity API means developers can get on with the job of building their applications without the need to worry about the underlying telephony hardware and media processing layers. Supporting the Dialogic family of telephony boards and media processing software, Velocity enables the creation of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Speech and IP enabled communications solutions that scale from as little as two voice channels to several hundred on a single server platform.

Benefits

• By using Visual Studio as its development environment, Velocity makes telephony programming easier. It also means for example that you can use Visual Studio team edition to have multiple developers work on one project, something which cannot be accomplished with other toolkits. Because Velocity can be used directly from .NET, you can use the huge range of .NET tools available to work in conjunction with your code. For example, Microsoft Sandcastle can be used to automatically generate help files directly from your source code comments, and Microsoft’s Software Licensing and Protection Service (SLPS) can be used to protect your code and to license it. These tools / services cannot be used with a proprietary IVR language.
• Some .NET IVR toolkits are no more than old COM components with a .NET layer wrapped around them, which means you have to load an extra layer of old technology before you even start a single channel. Velocity is developed directly in .NET and speaks directly to the low level native API’s for the telephony devices. This means less overhead for the toolkit, leaving more resources for your application. It also means that because the IVR is developed from scratch in .NET, it is developed using the same technology the programmer will be using to write the application, so it will work seamlessly.
• Velocity supports the entire Dialogic Diva (V-Series) family of voice boards as well as Diva Soft-IP. It also supports classic Dialogic boards such as the D4PCI, D300JCT, DMV600/1200BTEP boards and Dialogic’s Host Media Processing software. These boards can all be used at the same time from within the same application.
• Velocity does not need to be run on a form. Some IVR toolkits use form based ActiveX controls. Unfortunately, if your application is a console application or a service, this can pose difficulties.
• Velocity takes the worries of multithreading and asynchronous programming away from the programmer. The programmer can program as usual without having to worry about threads, semaphores, queues, critical code sections etc. And because the front end API is synchronous, the developer is shielded from the complicated asynchronous nature of telecoms programming.
• The development version of the toolkit is free of charge. If you want to deploy your developed application to a production environment you will need a license to cover the ports on your system.

About Glorsoft

Glorsoft is a specialist software company focused on the development of telephony programming tools for the Microsoft .NET developer community. The team behind Glorsoft has over 15 years of combined experience in computer telephony application development. The company's goal is to make telephony programming accessible to all .NET developers. Glorsoft technology is aligned exclusively to the Dialogic family of telephony hardware and media processing technologies. This powerful combination positions Glorsoft technology as a cost-effective yet flexible enabler for innovative telecommunications solution design. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and is currently building partner channels on a global basis.