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Just talked with Rakesh via olark (very helpful) on the Plivo site. I do a lot of stuff with Twilio and after talking with him, it sounds like Plivo has some valid strengths and advantages.

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Could you elaborate on what those advantages may be, for those of us who don't quite understand the difference?

Aaron,

I am on of the founders of Plivo. Let me share with you what we think is different:

1. Native SIP Support. Works with any SIP Device. 2. Realtime Call Control (like in-call notifications etc..) 3. No Limit Conferencing 4. No carrier Lock-in 5. Volume pricing from the start

If you have any questions, feel free to ping us at support@plivo.com

Venky, dumb question, but any idea if the call control can occur during a live call (two endpoints are connected instead of just one endpoint connected to plivo)? I'm trying to write an app that depends on this functionality but can't seem to do it in twilio or tropo.

Also, does plivo provide a softphone or client library?

Yes we can do that. Use our Transfer API and transfer both legs instead of just one :)

Soft phone library is in roadmap.

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