Dialogic, a global provider of products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing, today launched its inCloud9 network, a free, cloud-based developer network said to be designed to make it easier and more efficient for developers to test Dialogic products while building new applications. Specifically, the inCloud9 network provides application developers with access to products, technical documentation and support for creating new voice and video-enabled value-added services, without requiring local server hardware or a development environment.
Developers can securely develop applications using inCloud9 resources that are functionally partitioned and assigned to them. They are initially provided login credentials that enable them to access the site via a VPN connection. Development tools can then be accessed to create prototype applications that can be functionally tested with dedicated server resources running both Dialogic and third party products. inCloud9 also serves as a community for developers, and allows them to communicate and interact with others that have similar interests.
The first products available for use in the inCloud9 network include Dialogic PowerMedia products — Dialogic PowerMedia IP Media Server (IPMS), a server-based software product that supports open protocols and APIs to enable media processing capabilities for mobile value-added services; and Dialogic PowerMedia Web Media Server (WMS), software that enables the rapid development and deployment of voice and video-enabled Web 2.0 social networking and other applications using an HTTP RESTful-based interface popular with web developers.
Additional third party products are also accessible, including the Sailfin J2EE application server, OpenMethods OpenVXML service creation environment, Vicorp xMP service creation environment, NetBeans IDE and the Tomcat server for XML script and prompt storage. Dialogic is planning to make additional Dialogic products and third party products available through inCloud9 later in 2010.