Digium Launches “Respoke” Platform as a Service

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	Digium Launches "Respoke" Platform as a Service Digium announced the official launch of “Respoke” on their blog today, offering a cloud platform designed to enable communications for web and mobile applications. Respoke provides an API so developers can add live voice, video, messaging, and data services as to other applications; the platform is intended to allow communications feature development in a matter of days. Respoke began as a virtual startup within Digium and is staffed with a mix of communications industry veterans and cloud computing experts. Hundreds of invited developers have been working the platform in the beta mode released last year.The Respoke platform allows their customers to add features such as individual and group chat messaging, WebRTC-based voice and/or video calling, screen sharing, and file sharing to web applications-- all without the need to install a plug-in. 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