TAPI

TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface) - these are standard program interface for creating the applications of computer telephony in medium Windows, the determining set of the functions, which the program for interaction with the telephones, the lines and the switchboards can use. Standard TAPI is the embodiment of the principle of the openness of system architecture and is intended for developing the programs, oriented to the working station, which carries out all intellectual actions. By itself interface TAPI is by apparatus- independent variable, which makes possible for the compatible applications to work in different machines, using diverse net services.

In the process of the development of means of control by telephone connections and distribution of the resources between the applications for the personal computers was required the common interface, which makes possible for applications to together use all accessible possibilities. Besides other, this means that the method of turning to data must be identical for all applications. TAPI allows simple and universal means for control of the connections between two or more by computers and for the access to the flows of data, which pass on these connections. Control of the means of telephony is performed by centralizedly operating system, which makes it possible to ensure united interface for the applications, which use the at first glance incompatible protocols of exchange.